Paul Allen wrote:

> It wasn't about money, but rather about preventing Microsoft from
> flooding the market with their proprietary version of Java. Sun
> won, big time, although it's not clear what that win means for
> their long-term survival. Java's on what, it's third GUI toolkit?
> I was just thinking about learning Swing, and now it's out and
> something else is in. That's a platform without a long-term
> strategy. :-(

The Eclipse SWT is very serviceable and finding many converts.

It's all I would ever need -- and with the 1.0 release of the Eclipse
SWT its a no-brainer.