SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit

Welcome

Welcome to SWT! You may have come to this page looking for snippets (little code examples) or examples (big code examples like ControlExample); widget snapshots or documentation. Or maybe you want to request a feature, report a bug, or ask a question. Whatever the reason, you will find many resources here. Enjoy!

Releases

How to contribute

• How to contribute a feature or bug fix to SWT
• How to get the SWT source code via Git

Articles

• How to develop SWT applications in Eclipse
• How to run the ControlExample and other SWT examples
• How to deploy SWT applications on Mac OS X
• How to deploy SWT applications using Java Web Start
• How to generate the SWT JNI Code
• How to generate the SWT JNI Code for Cocoa
• Using OpenGL in SWT Applications
• How to help with the SWT Cocoa port
• Many more articles about SWT on Eclipse Corner at eclipse.org
• Full list of articles and documentation

Resources

• Widget screenshots with links to documentation
• Snippets, helpful little code examples
• Examples, helpful big code examples
• The SWT FAQ answers many common questions
• Tools and Plug-ins for SWT developers
• Online Javadoc
• Books and additional documentation
• Test Plan for SWT
• SWT Community Page
• SWTBot, UI/functional testing tool for SWT and Eclipse based applications.
• Eclipse/SWT Accessibility wiki

Contact Us

The SWT newsgroup [register] is a very active user discussion and help forum. See the Eclipse Community Forums page (expand Eclipse Projects to see SWT) for information on this and other newsgroups.

SWT development is discussed and tracked in the Eclipse bugzilla under the Platform/SWT component. You can subscribe to the new bug inbox by watching [email protected] from your bugzilla email preferences.

If you are modifying or porting SWT and have questions, try the SWT developer mailing list [archive, search].