SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit. SWT is an open source widget toolkit for Java designed to provide efficient, portable access to the user-interface facilities of the operating systems on which it is implemented.

It is an alternative to the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and Swing Java graphical user interface (GUI) toolkits provided by Sun Microsystems as part of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE).

The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a Java-based user interface library for developing desktop applications. SWT supports Windows, Linux and macOS.

Sep 9, 2011 · If you have a choice here, you should prefer Qt over SWT. Qt has been developed by people who understand UI and the desktop while SWT has been developed out of necessity to make Eclipse faster. It's more a performance patch for Java 1.4 than a UI framework.

Mar 31, 2020 · The SWT is a user interface (UI) toolkit for Java that allows to use native UI widgets from the underlying operating system (OS) in a Java application. Thus, SWT dialogs and windows will look...

SWT Examples are useful little programs that are written in SWT. These are typically much larger and more comprehensive than SWT Snippets . The following SWT Examples can be downloaded from the Eclipse download page:

Using the SWT/Swing Designer in MyEclipse, create Java GUI designs for your Java applications without spending time writing code to display simple forms.

SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) is a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit for Java that provides a rich set of components for building desktop applications. SWT was developed by Eclipse, and it serves as the primary toolkit for building GUI applications within the Eclipse IDE.

This site contains some tutorials and example programs that will help programmers who are new to Eclipse and the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) install Eclipse correctly and run some simple Java/SWT programs.

This chapter outlines the three main Java user interface (UI) toolkits: AWT, Swing, and JFace. First I provide a brief introduction to all three, and then I compare them, highlighting some of the advantages SWT/JFace offers.