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SWT vs Swing

Posted by daniel on February 17, 2005 at 1:05 PM EST

The debate rages on

In Also in Java Today , the Swing/SWT debate continues. In response to comments that James Gosling made about SWT in Australia, Bruce Eckel has enlisted the help of Chris Grindstaff who contributed to the SWT chapter in the latest edition of Bruce's "Thinking in Java". In Gosling on SWT , Chris first counters that AWT is not SWT. "The big difference between the two is AWT is very much least-common-denominator across all platforms. SWT isn't. The other significant difference is AWT chose to hide the emulation layer in C. In other words, java.awt.Button is the same on all platforms, while the native peer differs on each platform. One of the consequences of this is porting is harder, some things are in Java, some aren't. [..] In SWT the org.eclipse.swt.Button Java/class is different on each platform. The SWT lib does nothing but stuff methods straight to the OS. One toolset and less duplication."

The Object Computing gang has written about many of the Tiger language additions and now they turn their attention to Monitoring and Management with J2SE 5.0 . Weiqi Gao writes "JMX (JSR 3) and JMX Remote API (JSR 160) define a standard architecture for application and network management and monitoring in the Java programming language. The overall architecture is divided into three levels: Instrumentation Level, Agent Level, Distributed Services Level (Manager Level)"

Kathy Walrath posts that The Java Tutorial: Updated at Last! in today's Weblogs . She passes on the good news that " The online version of The Java Tutorial has been updated. Expect more updates soon!"

Chet Haase is flogging his latest java.net project and article in Timing is Everything. " There's a new article ("Timing is Everything") and project (timingframework.dev.java.net) on java.net that covers the basics of using Timers in Java and also adds interesting functionality to the timing facilities. "

In Projects and Communities, the Safari NetBeans plugin has graduated from the incubator. "Without leaving the IDE, developer can type in the keywords in the Safari search window and execute a search on the Safari e-reference library."

The JavaTools community has recognized the JForum project as their current "cool tool". "JForum is a complete, powerful, database-independent and multi-threaded forum software."

KEJohnson notes that Mustang API Docs posted on java.net in today's Forums . "The Mustang API doc bundle has been posted on the j2se project page for download. Plans are to keep it in sync with the source and binary downloads on this site."

Kelly O'Hair answers questions about building the J2SE. "The hotspot workspace is somewhat disconnected from the other workspaces, it's makefiles are a different breed of animal. Most of the hotspot engineers just build hotspot, and then plop that build hotspot into a already built JDK. Most of the non-hotspot engineers don't build hotspot, and just copy in the hotspot from a previous build."

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The debate rages on
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