Posted by Sven Gothel on Oct 04, 2012; 1:05am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/The-Current-State-Of-JOGL-SWT-Integration-tp4026329p4026349.html

On 10/03/2012 04:58 PM, rhatcher [via jogamp] wrote:
> 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.
Yep, we had some legal discussion w/ Eclipse foundation a 1-2 years ago
and there were a few more approaches to use JOGL 'officially' .. but this
discussion has ceased .. since the lawyer departed from the foundation.

>
> 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.
Sure.

>
> 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).  
Well, I prefer to let the JogAmp JARs untouched in other products as well,
since this way we can properly identify it's signature (git-sha1, .. etc).

> 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.

Thank you, very much appreciated. It always takes real world use cases
to make a tool a good one.

>
> Gentlemen, thanks again for your comments.

Thank you!

~Sven