[news.eclipse.technology.albireo] SWT_AWT cannot subclass Composite

["Rahul Kamdar" <rtkamdar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am making use of SWT_AWT bridge for bring my Swing application into 
Eclipse/SWT (I cannot move higher from Eclipse/SWT 3.2 and hence I am using 
SWT_AWT and not Albireo). While doing so, I referred to the article 
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Swing-SWT-Integration/index.html 
by Gordon Hirsch and recently made use of his Example code given there. As 
per this, all the necessary workarounds to make SWT_AWT work for you are 
applied to a subclass object of Composite (EmbeddedSwingComposite in his 
code). As per his recommendation I subclassed this and then used it in my 
code. However, I am encountering NPE on the EventThread and while trying to 
find solutions for the same I came across this: 
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-swt-dev/msg04614.html which 
suggests NOT to subclass Composite.

Is this a known issue with SWT_AWT and is there any workaround for the same?

Any help/direction would be really useful!

Thanks,
Rahul