Swing or SWT/JFace?

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timasmith@hotmail.com - 21 Mar 2006 14:23 GMT

Hi,

If you were embarking on a 3-5 year project, architected from the
ground up with a fat client to provide a rich complex user interface.

50% of the users running on Windows. 50% users running on linux.

Would you use Swing or SWT/JFace?

SWT looks a slick, fast native app.

Swing seems more stable (no memory management, fewer pitfalls) and
seems to be improving.

thanks

Tim

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opalpa@gmail.com opalinski from opalpaweb - 21 Mar 2006 14:35 GMT

I'm happy with Swing. Do read about creating and modifing Swing
components in Swing thread. I've read Swing has more functionality
than SWT and you're right Swing is improving with Java 6.0 release
mainly focusing on Swing.

I've not used SWT.

Opalinski
opalpa@gmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/opalpaweb/

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 21 Mar 2006 15:04 GMT

> SWT looks a slick, fast native app.

There are reports that SWT is slow like a dog on anything but windows.
You might want to investigate this first.

/Thomas

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Tomislav - 21 Mar 2006 19:32 GMT

>> SWT looks a slick, fast native app.
>
> There are reports that SWT is slow like a dog on anything but windows.
> You might want to investigate this first.

I can confirm that VE for eclipse is unusably slow on my GNU/linux
workstation...don't know how much of it has to do with swt.
Still, I've heard it mentioned a couple of times that swt was optimized
primarily for windows where it's really fast, but it not as good on other
platforms. You have to take it with a grain of salt, but that's what I heard.
Personaly, with the advent of Matisse, the seemingly wonderous NetBeans
platform and the improvements swing seems to be making, it's an easy choice
for me.

Tomislav

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