SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit

SWT is an open source widget toolkit for Java designed to provide efficient, portable access to the user-interface facilities of the operating systems on which it is implemented.

Welcome to SWT! You may have come to this page looking for snippets (little code examples) or examples (big code examples like ControlExample); widget snapshots or documentation. Or maybe you want to request a feature or ask a question. Whatever the reason, you will find many resources here. Enjoy!

• How to develop SWT applications in Eclipse
• How to run the ControlExample and other SWT examples
• How to deploy SWT applications on Mac OS X
• How to deploy SWT applications using Java Web Start
• How to use SWT from CVS
• How to generate the SWT JNI Code
• Using OpenGL in SWT Applications
• How to help with the SWT Cocoa port
• Many more articles about SWT on Eclipse Corner at eclipse.org
• Full list of articles and documentation

• Widget screenshots with links to documentation
• Snippets, helpful little code examples
• Examples, helpful big code examples
• The SWT FAQ answers many common questions
• Tools and Plug-ins for SWT developers
• Online Javadoc
• Books and additional documentation
• Test Plan for SWT
• SWT Community Page

The SWT newsgroup is a very active user discussion and help forum. See the Eclipse newsgroups page [archive, search].

SWT development is discussed and tracked in the Eclipse bugzilla under the Platform/SWT component. You can subscribe to the new bug inbox by watching platform-swt-inbox@eclipse.org from your bugzilla email preferences.

If you are modifying or porting SWT and have questions, try the SWT developer mailing list [archive, search].

• SWT 3.3, 25 June 2007.
• New and Noteworthy items for each milestone
• SWT 3.2.2, 12 February 2007.
• New and Noteworthy items for each milestone
• SWT 3.1.2, 19 January 2006.
  • New and Noteworthy items for each milestone
• SWT 3.0.2, 11 March 2005.
• New and Noteworthy items for each milestone