http://davethomson.sys-con.com/ Latest News from Dave Thomson en Copyright 2009 Ulitzer.com Ulitzer.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:28:06 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss 360 http://davethomson.sys-con.com/node/43644 This lively discussion will take on the controversial OS questions tha everyone is asking.<p><a href="http://davethomson.sys-con.com/node/43644" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:00:00 EST http://davethomson.sys-con.com/node/43644 http://davethomson.sys-con.com/node/43644#feedback http://davethomson.sys-con.com/node/37408 In his editorial 'Swing Is Swinging Java out of the Desktop' (JDJ, Vol. 7, issue 10) Alan Williamson lamented the current state of Swing and AWT for building competitive desktop applications. One alternative he mentioned is a technology called SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) that was developed as part of the Eclipse Project (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org" title="www.eclipse.org">www.eclipse.org</a>). If you're wondering why the Eclipse community, led by IBM, developed SWT instead of using J2SE's AWT or Swing classes, here's the reason.<p><a href="http://davethomson.sys-con.com/node/37408" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST http://davethomson.sys-con.com/node/37408 http://davethomson.sys-con.com/node/37408#feedback