[PJUG Javamail] How are Java UI frontend tools?

[Nimret Sandhu]

On Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:29:54 am Chris Kessel/Lou Doherty wrote:
> >There's a reasonably popular app out there called 'Eclipse' that is built
> 
> with SWT.
> 
> Not to start a religious war, but I think Eclipse's popularity is largely
> because it's free. To me, every Eclipse based app I've had to use looks
> horrible and has poor usability. Promoting SWT by way of Eclipse might not
> be helping SWT's case much.
> 
> Chris

netbeans/swing is free too and it's quite popular but I believe Eclipse trumps 
both netbeans & idea.

swt vs swing is a very subjective decision. I have used both ( someone 
suggested MigLayout, an excellent layout manager which works with both). swt 
lowers the layer of abstraction to give you a more closer to the native UI 
feel as compared to swing but you pay for that with complexity. 

there are lots of other swt based apps which are also very popular:
1. Vuze ( used to be called Azureus) - one of the most popular bittorrent 
clients areound
2. http://www.rssowl.org/
3. http://udig.refractions.net/

probably others floating out there ...
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Nimret Sandhu
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