Editing Standard Widget Toolkit (section)

== Development ==
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There is some development activity to enable combining Swing and SWT. Two different approaches are being attempted:

* ''SwingWT'' is a project to provide an alternative Swing implementation. It uses an SWT back end to display its widgets, thus providing the native look and feel and performance advantages of SWT along with the same programming model as Swing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://swingwt.sourceforge.net/ |title=SwingWT – The Swing/AWT API over SWT library |publisher=Swingwt.sourceforge.net |access-date=2009-10-16}}</ref>
* ''SWTSwing'' is a project to provide a Swing back end for SWT. In effect, SWT could be run using ''Swing native objects'' instead of, for example, GTK or Windows native objects. This would enable SWT to work on every platform that Swing supports.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://swtswing.sourceforge.net |title=The SWTSwing project |publisher=Swtswing.sourceforge.net |access-date=2009-10-16}}</ref>

Starting in 2006, there was an SWT-3.2 port to the programming language [[D (programming language)|D]] called DWT.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dsource.org/projects/dwt |title=DWT – Port of SWT and friends to the D programming language |publisher=Dsource.org |access-date=2009-10-16}}</ref> Since then, the project supports Windows 32-bit, and Linux GTK 32-bit for SWT-3.4. The DWT project also has an addon package that contains a port of [[JFace]] and Eclipse Forms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Forms/article.html |title=Eclipse Forms |publisher=Eclipse.org |date=2005-01-16 |access-date=2009-10-16}}</ref>

With [[JavaFX]] becoming part of the [[Java Platform, Standard Edition|Java SE platform]] there has been interest in developing a backend for SWT that relies on JavaFX in a similar way to SWTSwing relies on Swing. A prominent project trying to achieve that was ''SWT on JavaFX'' which became part of ''e(fx)clipse'' in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2014/03/13/swt-on-javafx-is-now-at-part-of-efxclipse/ |title=SWT on JavaFX is now a part of e(fx)clipse|date=13 March 2014}}</ref>