Re: best development JAVA tool

From: Dale King (kingd[at]tmicha[dot]net)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:11:52 -0500

"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt@squeakydolphin.com> wrote in message
news:slrnc2dak3.a5o.kt@premium.geo.yahoo.akadns.net...
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:16:04 -0800, Jon A. Cruz <jon@joncruz.org> wrote:
> > Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> >> I should note that eclipse, although great, isn't 100% Java. It has
> >> platform dependencies. I ran into this problem getting it to run
> >> under Linux. It had library dependencies in addition to those of the
> >> Java SDK. I switched to netbeans and have been pleased.
> >
> > If I recall, the GTK2 version has various dependency issues, but the
> > Motif version does not.
>
> It still isn't as portable as Java. It uses native methods for its
> windowing system. I don't know why they made that choice.

SWT actually has a long history and actually predates Swing. It was
originally created as replacement for AWT for doing UI's on embedded
systems. They later just used it for Visual Age Micro Edition which is sort
of a predecessor to Eclipse. 

--
  Dale King