Anchroring = Hanging a border or many borders of a visual object to the border of it's container.
Docking = hanging a visual object to the top, bottom, left or right side of it's container ( Or docking center = talking all the place of it's container)
Anchoring and docking are used, in combinaition with splitters in the autogrowing mechanism of forms.
The "controls/indicators" can grow, move in theire container according to the global windows size.
A more powerfull Anchoring mechanism exist also in Java ( Layouts , Percent anchoring ... )
