I believe SWT was a great kick in Sun's pants to get them to fix Swing, etc.

Now that it has done that I believe it has *no* reason to exist and is a 
essentially the single reason I'd never choose to use the Eclipse RCP.

--
Jess Holle

Lhasadad wrote:
> If it wasn't for the pressure of something like SWT.  The folks at sun
> might
> not have responded as quickly as they did to improve performance in
> swing,
> etc.  a little competition is good for all of us.  I don't think SWT
> ever did damage
> to the community.  it provided a performant GUI library when it looked
> like
> swing was not addressing the problem.
>
> On Jun 27, 8:57 am, Chris Adamson <invalidn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The OSGi zealots remind me of the SWT zealots... and are poised to do
>> just as much damage to the Java community.
>>     
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