Re: SWT or Swing?

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:39:17 -0500
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<47766a23$0$90270$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
richnjones@gmail.com wrote:

I am about to start writing a UI application and am thinking about
writing it in SWT. I have experience with Swing but never used SWT. I
thought it might be good to get to know another technology.


Always good to know all the alternatives.

                                                            I am
writing the application for a windows machine so portability is not a
primary concern of mine. I have heard SWT is a bit windows focussed
which for me is not an issue.


SWT uses native GUI components, but they are available for
some other platforms than Windows.

With the improvements with Swing under Java 5 and 6 which technology
does the group think I should use? Is speed much better in SWT when
compared to Swing?


As a product strategy, then I do not see much point in SWT. SUN works
hard to improve Swing and my impression is that they keep improving
it.

                   Is SWT a steep learning curve?


Never tried it personally. But on my TODO list.

 > I belive they both

paint on the event thread so bad programming in either would hit UI
performance.


That is generic for many GUI frameworks. It is the exact same issue in
..NET win forms.

Arne

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