SWT Documentation
This page contains links to books, tutorials, and articles about SWT.
SWT in Books
SWT is in print in the following books.
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"SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1" by Steve Northover and Mike Wilson
This book can be read online at the publisher's web site. - "The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace" by Rob Warner and Robert Harris
- "The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, Second Edition" by Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, and Pat McCarthy (Chapter 14)
- "Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins" by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck (Chapter 34)
- "Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer" by David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, and Robert McGovern (Appendix D)
- "Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applications" by Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux
- "Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins" by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel
- "SWT/JFace in Action: GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0" by Matthew Scarpino, Stephen Holder, Stanford Ng and Laurent Mihalkovic
- "Eclipse" and "Eclipse Cookbook" by Steve Holzner
SWT Documentation Inside Eclipse
The Eclipse Help system contains good solid documentation for SWT in
the Platform Plug-in Developer Guide. To get there in Eclipse, select
Help > Help Contents >
Platform Plug-in Developer Guide.
SWT documentation appears in the following sections of the Platform Plug-in Developer Guide:
- Programmer's Guide: Standard Widget Toolkit
- Reference: API Reference: org.eclipse.swt.* (javadoc for each package)
- Examples Guide: Standard Widget Toolkit
SWT Online Documentation
In addition to reading SWT documentation inside Eclipse, you can read it online here:
SWT Articles at eclipse.org and eclipse.org/swt
Articles at eclipse.org:
- Articles about SWT on Eclipse Corner at eclipse.org (20 at last count)