swt es un conjunto de componentes o widgets para construir interfaces gráficas en Java, desarrollado por el proyecto eclipse. Recupera la idea orifinal de la biblioteca AWT de utilizar componentes nativos, con lo que adopta un estilo más consistente en todas las plataformas, pero evita caer en las limitaciones de ésta.
ATW, SWT (Eclipse), Java Desktop Aplication (Netbeans), SwingX, JGoodies all there frameworks (I don't know something more about JGoodies) incl. JavaFX haven't long time any progress, lots of Swing's Based Frameworks are stoped, if not then without newest version
Java GUI frameworks. What to choose? Swing, SWT, AWT, SwingX, JGoodies ...
SWT provides a lot richer set of native heavyweight widgets than AWT - a proper comparison would be SWT vs AWT/Swing. Due to that, SWT looks more native than AWT/Swing. While this could be considered a success, it can also be a drawback, depending on what you need to implement. In case of SWT you are using only heavyweight native widgets with all possible OS limitations. With AWT/Swing you ...
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Does this Eclipse based application have a plugin (or more precisely, a fragment in the plugins folder) with the name org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86_64_*.jar? If yes, which .so files does the JAR contain?
eclipse - "Could not load SWT library" error - no swt-pi4* in in java ...
Remember that in SWT you must explicitly dispose any resources that you create when you are done with them. This includes widgets, fonts, colors, images, displays, printers, and GCs.