Somebody at SpiderLogic points to James Gosling’s comment on the portability of SWT over at Computer World. Dr Gosling makes the point that SWT has been getting as big an uptake as it might have expected to get, and he attributes that to its lack of portability.
By “portability”, the good doctor means, “portability to any Java platform”. The SWT folks have their own definition of portability. SWT currently runs on Windows, GTK, Motif or OS/X
For any forseeable need I have, SWT is portable enough. A choice between SWT and Swing would be made on other factors such as:
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