I think it's nice that Java users have several strong choices in terms of IDEs . . . Netbeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ. I myself have used all 3 and find the freedom of choice quite nice compared to Visual Studio.
However, in terms of application development, I hope SWT does not gain traction since it will fracture the Java community. Java developers will be faced with the choice of either Swing or SWT. Learning both is not practical for many developers. I truly hope that Eclipse will continue as a product and that they switch over to the Swing API. Besides, JVM 1.5 will provide 2D hardware acceleration via OpenGL (albeit for non-Windows platforms), thus taking away some thunder from SWT's native appeal. |
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