[platform-swt-dev] "Upgrading" from SWT to JFace

[Bertram Herzog <Bertram.Herzog@xxxxxx>]

Hello altogether,
I have a fairly complex graphical application that uses SWT to display 
my graphics. Is it possible, for the sake of a more elaborate 
control-GUI and common SWING-understandings, like MVC, to "upgrade" to 
JFace?

I had a look at some of the articles on the Eclipse-site and always had 
to find out, that JFace applications start from scratch as 
JFace-Applications, extending the ApplicationWindow. Also, the typical 
SWT-never-ending-loop is substituted (among others) by the (JFace) 
open() command. My app is fairly complex, and a lot of initialisations 
are going on, from when I get the Display until the point, when I do the 
open, since the app is kind of "MDI". Is there a chance to
a) either "upgrade" an existing SWT-application to JFace (by somehow 
wrapping it to the ApplicationWindow, or
b) "plug in" JFace components in an existing SWT-application. This way I 
could use the "JFace-MVC" for Tables and Trees, and still rely on my 
rendering subsystem in SWT.

Any comments are greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance
   Yours Bertram