Java Swing. Swing is one of Java's most enduring desktop UI frameworks, and it continues to power high-quality applications across platforms. A prime example is the popular IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, ...

* SWT. As we noted in a story on Eclipse [2], ... VistaSource built a lightweight Java GUI renderer that connected, X-Windows-style, to a GUI server and to the guts of the Applixware suite.

Eclipse uses the SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) as a UI framework, which uses the native widgets of the respective operating system. Under Windows, SWT translates Java UI components into native ...