Introduction
With this article, we start a series on Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and Eclipse Plug-in Framework at Eduzine©. It is assumed that you have already heard about Eclipse and you are gungho about exploring it and may be getting into all its details.
SWT is the base UI toolkit to create the UI, mainly the native widgets. Then there is JFace, an abstraction that sits on top of JFace (a large part of it) and adds power to native widgets. And finally, there is Eclipse Plug-in Framework that helps creating applications in a modular fashion. Default implementation of the Eclipse Workbench (the main UI cockpit) uses SWT and JFace for its UI.
Following the tradition started few decades back, we start with "Hello, World!" application.
Downloads
The downloads are available in the Downloads area in the Eclise Standard Widget Toolkit category.
