Getting Started with SWT

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How does SWT work with Eclipse

  • SWT is Eclipse's windowing API

  • SWT is a plug-in within Eclipse

  • JFace is a layer that interacts, abstracts and builds on SWT.

  • SWT is a much lower level API that JFace builds upon to provide the complex Eclipse GUI.

  • JFace provides an elegant means of fusing both Model and View levels of the application.