Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Mar 2008 17:52 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Microsoft today announced its first collaboration with the open source Eclipse Foundation by committing provide engineering support to allow the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit use Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation. The move aims to make it easier for Java developers to write applications that look and feel like native Windows Vista, according to Microsoft."
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2005-07-06
I was just saying the same thing to a co-worker. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if this was just another way for Microsoft to try and fragment the community. Either way, I really don't care what they do with this.
I've done development on both Swing and SWT. SWT is great for quickly putting up a UI, but Swing is so much more powerful, and does not require loading 3rd party jars and libraries to make it work.