On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:51:28AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: > There's also SWT from IBM which is used in the Eclipse-IDE. This is a > hybrid between the two far ends used by AWT and Swing. It uses the native > interface where available and implements the missing features. It works > via the JNI. On Linux it uses GTK+ for the gui-libs.
We are investigating SWT at my place of work, and are very impressed so far. Native interfaces are available for a wide range of platforms, and the UI is much more responsive than the various pure Java toolkits. Yesterday I was able to use all of the controls in controlexample from Eclipse, using both gij-3.3, and compiling to native code using gcj-3.3. Of course, this doesn't help in trying to run apps which are written to use Swing, but SWT may be a great alternative for new applications. -- - mdz
