why we need SWT, JFace ?

[Edward Chen]

I read a book about SWT. I am wondering why we need SWT ? is it faster, more convinent or what ? SWT can be used seperately, not bundled with Eclipse ?, what is diffence between SWT and Swing ?

Thanks

[Gregg Bolinger]

You might take a look at the following links for some of the information you are inquiring about.

http://radio.javaranch.com/channel/gthought/2004/07/10/1089501785000.html
http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2002_12/magazine/columns/proshop/
https://coderanch.com/t/338112/GUI/java/author-future-swing
https://coderanch.com/t/337272/GUI/java/SWT-vs-Swing
https://coderanch.com/t/337189/GUI/java/Swing-versus-SWT