Posted by rhatcher on Oct 03, 2012; 2:58pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/The-Current-State-Of-JOGL-SWT-Integration-tp4026329p4026339.html

OK, sounds good.  I'll give all this a try now that I have the total picture.

It would be interesting to know how many people are using JOGL with SWT.  I know of our site and Wade Walker's; that makes two :-).  I don't have any numbers on it, but it's easy to believe it's the minority usage by far.

At our site we aren't so interested in SWT per se though it does seem to be a little snappier, but we are interested in Eclipse, and SWT comes along for the ride.  It's just another toolkit anyway and no harder to program, so we just kind of accept it and move on.

We also take what you might call an unconventional approach to integrating our existing code base with Eclipse, so there are some overall integration aspects that would be of interest to others using RCP that we don't use (notably we don't do any bundling for our own classes or for GlueGen/JOGL/JOAL, but Wade has covered that in some of his tutorials).  However, any SWT-related enhancements we might make around the JOGL API proper could be of interest, so if we cook up anything that seems useful we'll definitely toss it back in your direction.

Gentlemen, thanks again for your comments.