Re:SWT vs AWT/Swing (Score 1)

Swing is really not all that stable on platforms other than Window and Solaris. Now Mac OSX is pretty good to. On Linux, I was using JDK 1.4.1_01 from the Sun site. I couldn't believe how many of the Swing classes still created the error "Not Yet Implimented". I finally went back to JDK 1.3.1_06 but that has problems with Fonts... In the end, I tried the IBM version JDK 1.4 and it worked very well! Also, I could not get the gtk 2.0 version of Eclipse to work but the Motif version did. In the end, I guess that is good enough, isn't it? I just with IBM and SUN would quit fighting and make SWT a standard. It is already available for most OS's. If it is a standard then maybe we would feel more comfortable coding to it. Right now, it is like the extentions that Microsoft has put into IE. Sure, they work and might actually be defacto standard but that still doesn't make them right.