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Use SWT for data entry Like many Java programmers, you may have given up on writing client-side window applications. There's a lot of debate about why client-side Java is out of fashion. But most of it boils down to the fact that Javaâ??until nowâ??cou

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This article presents a common use for any windowing toolkit: displaying and editing data-bound widgets.

To get up and running with SWT, you need to download the SWT runtime. Check Resources for a link to the latest stable build. For this article, we use Eclipse 3.0 M6, which contains 2 DLLs, or dynamic link libraries, (in the Windows download) and the Java JNI (Java Native Interface) library, swt.jar.

To compile or run any SWT code, you must pass a Java property that locates the runtime libraries. On Windows, for example, you could install to C:\SWT and set this property like so:


-Djava.libary.path=c:\SWT


However, you must ensure other native libraries in your application, like a database driver, are not using this property.

Of course, swt.jar needs to be in the Java classpath. You may also wish to include jface.jar from the Eclipse distribution to take advantage of the JFace library. However, for this article, I do not discuss JFace, and the library is not required


 

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