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.

• 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 3.2.2, 12 February 2007.
• SWT 3.2, 30 June 2006.
• 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