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The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and JFace libraries are used to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for the Eclipse environment, and also to develop stand-alone GUI native applications.

A gentle introduction to SWT and JFace

How to create a simple SWT application
In this first article of A gentle introduction to SWT and JFace, find out how to create a simple Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) application using Java, Eclipse, and the SWT and JFace libraries. Also learn how to create simple SWT GUIs using basic controls and layouts.
How to use combo, list, table, and tree controls
This installment of A gentle introduction to SWT and JFace expands on what you've learned about creating simple Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) applications using Java technology, Eclipse, and the SWT and JFace libraries. This installment shows you how to use combo, list, table, and tree controls, as well as form layouts and reusable helper methods.
How to use TabFolder, Canvas, and StyledText
This installment of A gentle introduction to SWT and JFace expands on what you've learned about creating applications using Java technology, Eclipse, and the SWT and JFace libraries. Find out how to use tabular tree, canvas, styled text, slider, spinner, scale and other controls, as well as stack layouts.
How to use ToolBars and SashForms
This installment of A gentle introduction to SWT and JFace expands on what you've learned about creating applications using Java technology, Eclipse, and the SWT and JFace libraries. This installment shows you how to use ToolBars, CoolBars, Trays, SashForms, Links, and other controls, as well as several dialog types.

Components

An Eclipse Nebula widgets primer
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View and Model

How to use the JFace Tree Viewer
The goal of this article is to teach you how to use TreeViewers in your Eclipse plug-ins or stand-alone JFace/SWT applications. We'll start with a simple example and progressively add functionality.
Building and delivering a table editor with SWT/JFace
The JFace API provides several classes that can be used to build editable table views. In this article, we present a fairly extensive example that exercises the JFace and SWT classes needed to implement a table with cell editors for check-boxes, free text and combo-boxes. We also show how to package and deliver the classes into a stand-alone (non-Eclipse) Java application.

Layouts

Understanding Layouts in SWT
When writing applications in SWT, you may need to use layouts to give your windows a specific look. A layout controls the position and size of children in a Composite. Layout classes are subclasses of the abstract class Layout. This article shows you how to work with standard layouts, and write your own custom layout class.
Creating Your Own Layouts
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ActiveX

ActiveX Support In SWT
OLE Documents, such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint, and ActiveX Controls such as Internet Explorer are COM objects that can be embedded into other applications running on a Microsoft® Windows® platform. This article provides an overview of integrating OLE Documents and ActiveX Controls into an application using SWT.
Integrate ActiveX controls into SWT applications
With the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), you can develop a stand-alone Java application that feels and operates like a native application. If you've spent any time developing Java client-side applications for Windows, you've probably wanted to integrate some native Windows components into your applications. SWT, part of the developing Eclipse Project, fulfills this need by giving you a way to easily leverage and integrate ActiveX controls within a stand-alone SWT application.
Get events from IE control
OLE and ActiveX example: get events from IE control

Deployment

Deploy an SWT application using Java Web Start
At some point in the development process of an SWT application -- typically after a basic prototype is operational -- concerns about the deployment process arise. Unlike traditional Java applications, SWT applications require some operating system-specific libraries to be loaded before an application can operate. While the ongoing deployment and maintenance of these libraries might seem like a headache, rest assured there is a solution -- Sun's Java Web Start. The marriage of SWT with Java Web Start provides powerful tools to deploy great-looking client-side Java applications.

Books

Other Resources

The SWTSwing project
SWTSwing is a port of the SWT graphical toolkit to Swing. It brings portability, a bridge between Swing and SWT components, look and feel support and much more.
SWT Designer
Designer is a powerful and easy to use two-way Java GUI designer based on Eclipse SWT technology. It is very easy to create Java GUI applications without spending a lot of time writing code to display simple forms. With SWT Designer you can create complicated windows in minutes. Use the visual designer and Java code will be generated for you. You can easily add controls using drag-and-drop, add event handlers to your controls, change various properties of controls using a property editor and much more.

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