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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Because the Swing folks can paint whatever pixels they want to on the screen - the UI is entirely up to them, they don't need Microsoft's help.
SWT on the other hand wraps native widgets, and as WPF is a managed framework, I imagine wrapping WPF widgets is a bit more complicated than the current implementation.
"The move aims to make it easier for Java developers to write applications that look and feel like native Windows Vista, according to Microsoft.
So, the goal is to make it look and feel native. If that is the goal, then why not work with Sun to make the Swing Vista L&F have a more native feel to it? If they truly want to help Java, then why not take the more "pure" java approach? They state in the article that they want to show the community they are more open, but they are doing so by putting proprietary hooks into a windows-only version of SWT. My only hope would be that, whatever UI additions they add would be cross-compatible with the other SWT ports. "