SWT minimizes the gab between .Net and Java in Desktop development

For a time, I was looking to java as a "Server", "Client" and "Mobiles" paltform, and when it comes to desktop applications, C# is the player.

but after i looked at the new Java GUI library SWT, I think i should change this opeion .

SWT is the IBM GUI addition to the Java world, the whole Eclipse IDE is built using this new technology.

the SWT objective was to creat a native based GUI that enjoyes the native OS support for GUI creation and rendering, which will results in a very fast -almost like Windows froms- desktop applications.

to write SWT based application, u can use notpad if you're a classical 20'centurey programmer but of course you can have an eclipse plugin to do the job for u like the one i'm presenting here.

don't miss tryin it

see references for more details.

 

Standard Widget Toolkit. IBM's toolkit similar to Swing, that they use in Eclipse. It is intermediate in complexity between AWT and Swing. It is considerably faster than Swing. It does not have full internationalisation support.

Tools for SWT GUI design include:

• Advanced Eclipse SWT Designer (Commercial) GUI designer plug-in for Eclipse. Free version also available.
• SWTworkbench by Advanced Systems Concepts (Commercial) GUI builder for Eclipse, currently in beta. Supports the Sweet API.
• SWT GUI Builder (Shareware) Has a Swing to SWT conversion facility.
• V4ALL Eclipse GUI Designer by Assisi (Open Source) Eclipse plugin for designing Java Swing & SWT GUIs and generating the code.