:DevX: SWT Creates Fast, Native-looking GUIs for Your Java Apps
DevX: SWT Creates Fast, Native-looking GUIs for Your Java Apps Jul 6, 2004, 05 :30 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (5673 reads) (Other stories by Raghu Donepudi)
"Since Sun Microsystems released the first version of Java, the industry has been displeased with the way Java's front-end development toolkit works. Though Swing appeased some developers with its look-and-feel, the interfaces one could build with it still lacked the right look and its performance did not meet the requirements of large-scale, industrial-strength applications.
"To address this shortcoming, some folks like IBM set out to develop an entirely new toolkit that has a widget framework similar to Java's Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) but is entirely dependent on the native operating system's GUI widgets..."
