Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 17
Other Ways:
Alternatives to Swing
In which we discover that Swing is not the only GUI game in town. In so doing
we learn the rudiments of the Standard Widget Toolkit and we describe some
of the key limitations of this alternative toolkit.
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This chapter will introduce the basic classes of SWT, the Standard Widget
Toolkit, which is an alternative GUI library developed mainly for the Eclipse
Java IDE.
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Development of Eclipse has been led primarily by IBM.
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http://www.eclipse.org/
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http://www.ibm.com/
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