[news.eclipse.modeling] Re: Help: Advice on GUI Designer to choose?

[Krzysztof Kowalczyk <kowalczyk.krzysztof@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Netbeans means Swing and Matisse which may or may not be better. 

I mentioned Netbeans, as in database application one can use Swing 
Application Framework https://appframework.dev.java.net/ and JPA and 
Netbeans generate and handle such things well out of the box. In Eclipse 
it would take much effort to gather proper knowledge about beans 
binding, SWT, JFace, JPA and find good plugins to support that.


> SWT is cool (and better IMHO) though it is changing in e4 so who knows. They
> are going declarative and CSS and Javascript and such things.

It is not "changing", it is "growing". e4 allows for deklarative SWT 
(XWT) and for styling controls with CSS. But you don't have to use it! 
The old way works like always did.
I am (not yet ;) ) fun of XWT / XAML, but declarative UI has strong 
advantages in many use cases IMO.

Regards,
Krzysztof Kowalczyk