Is there room for both SWT and Suns Swing graphical interface tool kit?
I absolutely think there’s room for both. There are some capabilities in Swing that SWT doesn’t have. There are some capabilities in SWT in terms of its performance and size and so forth that Swing doesn’t have. And I don’t see any reason that you have to tell people, “Thou shalt use one and only one.” What’s your position on Java Specification Request (JSR) 198, which aims to create a standard interface to eliminate the need for vendors to build different extensions to get their tools to interoperate? It’s fine to have it, but I don’t think it can go deep enough to address the real needs of customers. It’ll help achieve some surface-level integration, but it’s not going to achieve the kind of integration that can be achieved with Eclipse.
