The speed of SWT
Some strange contradiction happened this week. Joshua Marinacci is asking in his blog why people aren’t shipping Swing applications. His post has generated a lot of reactions, and many people are saying that Swing isn’t fast enough, and that’s why they prefer SWT. Infoworld published an article comparing the four major Java IDE’s: Four Java IDEs duke it out. The article compares Borland JBuilder, IBM Rational Software Architect, Oracle JDeveloper, and Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7. IBM Rational Software Architect is based on Eclipse, so it uses SWT. According to the article the IBM IDE is the slowest of the four, and Oracle Jdeveloper is the fastest. Oracle’s JDeveloper is based on Swing. So it seems like using SWT for performance isn’t really that important, performance probably has to do with a lot of other issues as well.