Not only does Eclipse shun Java’s standard AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) and Swing libraries, replacing these with SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) for basic widgetry and JFace for advanced effects ...

Eclipse developers have been working for years on a visual editor for Java Swing and SWT programs. The starting point was a block of code called the Visual Editor, donated by IBM a few years ago.

Visual learners prefer to interact with GUI components as opposed to a terminal window or the command line. A Java Swing-based Hello World program, which uses Java's desktop development APIs, is a ...