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I've spent all this time looking at docking and windowing lately. Then I saw this project. It definitely shows how things have changed over the years. At least you don't have to worry about look and feel issues...

CHARVA is a Java framework for presenting a "graphical" user interface, composed of elements such as windows, dialogs, menus, textfields and buttons, on a traditional character-cell ASCII terminal. It has an API based on that of "Swing" (a.k.a. the Java Foundation Classes). Programmers familiar with AWT and Swing will find programming CHARVA straightforward. User interfaces can be designed on WYSIWYG IDEs such as Borland JBuilder and then easily converted to CHARVA merely by changing the "import" statements to import the "charva.awt and "charvax.swing" packages instead of the standard "java.awt" and "javax.swing" packages.

Charva - A Java Windowing Toolkit for Text Terminals