[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Where is swt.jar?

[Billy Biggs <bbiggs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> I fix my problem by inserting the example SWT text editor which
> automigically configured my project. Now the "BlankWindow" application
> works.
>
> I'm still curious, however, why the instructions in the book did not work.

  In Eclipse 3.2 they changed the structure of the plugins to be in
single jar files which has some advantages, and we improved the
usability of writing SWT applications against the download of SWT
on our website.  See:

    http://www.eclipse.org/swt/eclipse.php

  for the current recommended practices for creating a Java project
that uses SWT in Eclipse.

  -Billy