How to Use Objects: Code and Concepts

9.3 The JFace Layer

^7.1SWT is a typical user interface toolkit that provides the standard interaction elements, such as text fields, tables, and trees, out of the box. However, it is also designed to be minimal: Since it accesses the ^7.4native widgets of the platform that the application executes on, the SWT classes must be ported to every supported platform. For that reason, SWT offers only bare-bones functionality. Any higher-level functionality is factored out into the JFace framework, which is pure Java and portable. JFace facilitates connecting ...