Article:		A Look at the Eclipse IDE
Subject:		For the next version: port it to Swing
Date:		2003-11-15 16:02:27
From:		anonymous2
Looking at the quality and speed of Swing in 1.4.2 days and also looking at the speed of Swing applications like JBuilder or IDEA the Eclipse people and especially IBM should end their small mindedness. People often criticize Swing as being too complicate when compared to Cocoa or WindowsForms. Well they should take a look at SWT. This thing is already outdated. IBM please remove it. You strengthen only .NET with this fragmentation and you gain nothing. And start to think about a Swing implementation using a Java2D implemented on top of OpenGL (hardware accelerated). Isn’t it planned for 1.5 ??

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• For the next version: port it to Swing
  2003-11-17 05:09:46  neuro1 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I'm sorry but I must disagree with you. Eclipse would be nothing with Swing. We've been using is under Windows but mostly Linux at least for 9 months and it's just great and Eclipse + SWT rocks, it feels native and it's fast, heck it even made me switch from XEmacs which is not a minor thing.
  
  About SWT, we've been writing a couple of applications based on SWT and yes we did the absolutely right choice. Our competition is using .Net/C# solutions, most of our clients are still under Windows (for now:) and without SWT we could not stand a chance. Our applications are fast (I mean damn fast) and not very pretentious on resources (heck it even works reasonably on an Pentium 166 with 32 RAM) and absolutely look great, no wander out clients love them all with the full power of Java. Without SWT we would be out of business by now.
  
  True do it is still work in progress so beware of bugs.