“The Eclipse consortium for open source tools on Tuesday is
announcing its Visual Editor Project, to deliver a visual GUI
construction and editor platform.“With Eclipse’s Visual Editor reference distributions,
developers will no longer have to build Java GUIs by writing source
code by hand, according to Eclipse. The effort is intended to
provide support for any user interface framework and programming
language supported by Eclipse. A reference GUI builder will be
implemented for the Java Swing/JFC (Java Foundation Classes) and
SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) GUI frameworks…”