Chapter 7. SWT: Buttons, Text, Labels, Lists, Layouts, and Events

     

SWT, the Standard Widget Toolkit, was created by IBM as a replacement for both the Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Swing. It's a big topic, and it comes with Eclipse, ready to use. Here's how the Eclipse documentation describes SWT:

The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a widget toolkit for Java developers that provides a portable API and tight integration with the underlying native OS GUI platform.