The State of JVM Desktop Frameworks: SWT
A discussion of how to the SWT framework can be used to work with and display data in a Java-based application. by
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This series is dedicated to the state of JVM desktop frameworks. After having had a look at Swing last week, this post focuses on the Standard Widget Toolkit.
SWT originated with the Eclipse project as an
IDE. The developers built a dedicated framework for Eclipse in which to build their graphic components. Swing and SWT have widely different designs. Swing implements the drawing of widgets in Java from scratch. SWT is a thin wrapper API that relies on native graphic objects. This has two main benefits:
Java Syntax Puzzlers
How can one equal two? Can you use keywords as variable names? We look at these and more tricky questions in a set of extreme Java syntax puzzlers. by
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Roughly 12 years ago, I started to contribute to the Eclipse ecosystem in various functions. One of the most interesting experiences to this date was to work on developer tooling and handling the edge cases so others don’t have to struggle. Though I stepped down as an Eclipse committer in the meantime, I’m still attached to working on productivity tooling nowadays as a member of the Gradle Build Tool.