Migrate your Swing application to SWT

Level: Advanced

Yannick Saillet (ysaillet@de.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM

19 Jan 2004

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One of the reasons for the success of the Eclipse platform is the performance of its user interface compared to other Java™ applications. The SWT is a key contributor to that success. SWT allows you to build cross-platform user interfaces that are as rich as Swing UIs and that perform as well as native UIs, but the toolkit does have a drawback: SWT is not compatible with AWT and Swing. Java developer and Eclipse enthusiast Yannick Saillet offers this comprehensive, hands-on guide to porting a Swing application to SWT using extensive code samples to illustrate the techniques.

Prerequisites

System requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install JDK version 1.4 or greater, along with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit (WTK).

Duration

More than two hours

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