Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace (Programmer to Programmer)

Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace (Programmer to Programmer), 9780470094594 (0470094591), Wrox Press, 2005

Eclipse is an open source universal tool platform, dedicated to providing a robust, full-featured industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools. With millions of downloads, Eclipse becomes more and more popular. One of the most important common facilities provided by the Eclipse framework is the portable native widget user interface called the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), which provides a set of OS-independent APIs for widgets and graphics. SWT is analogous to AWT and Swing except SWT uses a rich set of native widgets. Built on SWT, JFace is a user interface toolkit handling many common UI programming tasks. JFace is designed to work with SWT without hiding it. Some of the advantages SWT/JFace offers over Swing include support for native features, fast execution speed, and flexible programming models.

This book teaches you how to build practical user interfaces with SWT/JFace. After introducing each widget, I present a great deal of Java source code to show you how to use the widget effectively. You can use the sample code as the basis to develop real-world applications quickly. Additionally, many techniques and tips are presented to help you save time. Finally, the last chapter shows you how to build an FTP client by combining everything covered in the book.

The comprehensive coverage of the SWT/JFace framework also makes this book an ideal reference

Professional Java Native Interfaces takes a solutions-based approach in showing how SWT/JFace works, discussing each common component, providing useful, practical ideas, tips and techniques to make the Java developers' work easier. The author provides relevant and timely examples, both stand-alone applications and smaller code snippets that readers can incorporate into their own code.

To provide a truly real-world quality, the author builds an email/ftp client sample application to show readers how to combine everything into a presentable Java native UI application.

About the Author

Jack Li Guojie is an independent Java developer who has been building various types of Java applications since 1998. His areas of interest and experience include artificial intelligence, user interfacing, Web applications, and enterprise system architecture. He has contributed articles to many leading software journals.

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