Java Lab Thoughts - Writing GUIs in Java is so much more cumbersome than xhtml/CSS.

I am 90% complete with Java Lab #1 due on Thursday.  It is an applet laying out a graph.  While it is fairly easy I forgot just how infuriatingly time consuming it is to layout GUIs in Java.  I wish they would realize that GUIs are so much easier, and in this century, common to be coded in XHTML and CSS with Java as the Model and Control code.  Sigh!!