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Old 01-05-2006, 02:27 AM
IchBin
 
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Default Re: Microsoft's goals for 2006

Rhino wrote:
> "John A. Bailo" <jabailo@texeme.com> wrote in message
> news:43B587EF.4070407@texeme.com...
>> Rhino wrote:
>>
>>> I _think_ you mean: "Oops.... make that the 1.0 release of SWT". Or is
>>> WST something else again?

>> SWT is the Eclipse GUI toolkit.
>>
>> WST is the web standard tools -- lets you do web pages, .jsp pages, java
>> faces and so on, in Eclipse.
>>

> My mistake; I thought 'WST' was an inadvertent transposition of 'SWT'. :-)
>
>> It's always been there, but they just released the 1.0 version.
>>
>> I was saying that by using the Eclipse platform you can get some
>> consistency with java that matches the .NET/Visual Studio system.
>>

> Forgive my ignorance but how does SWT differ from Swing/JFC? Does SWT offer
> desireable components not found in Swing/JFC? Doesn't Swing/JFC work in
> .NET/Visual Studio?
>
> Rhino
>
>

SWT stands for 'The Standard Widget Toolkit'. It is analogous to
AWT/Swing in Java with a difference - SWT uses a rich set of native widgets.





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