Re: Swing vs. SWT

Subject: Re: Swing vs. SWT

From: Peter Molettiere <email@hidden>

Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:02:47 -0800

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On Jan 12, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Andrei Tchijov wrote:

Beside performance of the GUI, one of the biggest differentiators between SWT and Swing is what kind of tool you can use to build your application. If you choose to do SWT, than your only choice is Eclipse, and unfortunately it works "so-so" on Mac OS X (and VE - Visual Editor - does not work on Mac OS X at all ). With Swing you have many more choices (Netbeans jump to mind right away).

This is simply not true. We have a large SWT application built entirely with Idea. We don't use Eclipse at all. We write all our own GUI code, and have no issues. This is no different than building a GUI app with Swing without a visual GUI tool, although, admittedly, the Eclipse project website doesn't have the best navigation, and there aren't as many SWT tutorials as there are Swing tutorials. I'm not sure I'd point to java.sun.com as a paragon of good information design, either, though.

On the "SWT is slow on Mac OS X" front, we find that our application is as fast as most native apps on Mac OS X. Granted, it's a business application, and not a game or scientific visualization app, but for our purposes, SWT is plenty fast. As a further data point, we found that performance of Swing in scrolling tables with large models (many rows) was not acceptable on both Windows and Mac OS X. We don't have this problem anywhere under SWT.

Peter Molettiere

Found, Green Array

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/greenarray.html

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References:

>Swing vs. SWT (From: George Ugarte <email@hidden>)

>Re: Swing vs. SWT (From: Scott Palmer <email@hidden>)

>Re: Swing vs. SWT (From: Andrei Tchijov <email@hidden>)