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SwingWT is a 100% pure Java library which aims to be a free implementation of Swing and AWT. Unlike Swing, it drives native peer widgets for your platform from SWT. You can see a screenshot of the basic SwingWT demo here. The SwingWT download now includes the SwingSet2 demo, which you can see running on your platform with native widgets 1 2 3 4!
A small list of projects I know about using SwingWT can be found here. SwingWT offers many benefits: - More responsive GUIs and faster startup times
- Less RAM usage for applications
- Many developers prefer the Swing API
- Existing Swing applications don't need to be recoded
- Mature Swing UI designers can be used
- Developers deploying to *nix/Win32 can compile natively with GCJ and the applications can be distributed without a VM. Linux distribution makers could package many existing Java/Swing applications that previously could not be distributed in workable state.
- SWT components can be directly accessed through the API, allowing mix and match (make Eclipse plugins with Swing!)
- Use Swing on mobile devices!
- The best of both worlds! New Swing components for JClosableTabbedPane, JCoolBar..
Added on: 28-Mar-2004
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