[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Any chance that SWT/JFace will become a stand-a

["Simon Arsenault" <simon_arsenault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Darren Bell" <belldj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We are looking at the benefits/pitfalls of moving our in-house Java
> development to using SWT/JFace.
>
> Due to the widget set being tied with the IDE, those features that could
> be implemeted to make application programming using the widgets easier,
> will not be.  This is because, changes will only be started if Eclipse
> requires them.
>
> I am hearing (more increasingly) that developers are now stating to use
> SWT/JFace for their client side applications as an alternative to Swing.
> I will not get into that debate hear, but would just like to say that
> after looking at both, SWT looks the smarter choice.
>
> What we need now is for SWT/JFace to be split off into a project in its
> own right.  This would ensure that it could have functionality added,
> even if eclipse did not use them, but would be of use to the stand-alone
>   application developer.

There has been some on and off discussion about making JFace standalone (SWT
already is). If you search the Platform - UI bug list, you find a couple
reports about this which you can add yourself to the CC list.

Simon :-)

>
> What do you all think?
>
> Darren.
>