RE: [WDSCI-L] Efficient use of WDSCi.

["Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It depends.

One of the "issues" with Eclipse (which WDSC is built on) is that they 
"invented" their own GUI toolkit named SWT instead of using the standard 
Java GUI toolkit of AWT/Swing.  So in addition to porting the code to run 
within the Eclipse plugin framework, GUI code often has to be rewritten 
for SWT.

The SWT layer is one of the reasons why Eclipse looks like a Windows 
application instead of a Java application.  SWT uses the native operating 
system GUI to draw on the screen so apps look and feel like a native 
application on the platform they run on, including adopting any 
themes/skins that have been applied to the OS.

Eclipse 3.0 is adding a new feature to allow AWT/Swing to be used in 
plugins.  The idea is to make it easier for apps to get initially 
converted to Eclipse plugins.  Eventually they should be converted to SWT, 
however, as the combined UI can look "jarring" in some cases.

Anyway, long story short, I do not think that iSeries Navigator uses SWT, 
even though some of it is in Java.

Mark


wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/21/2004 03:59:59 PM:

> Isn't a lot of iSeries Navigator being rewritten in Java?  Could those 
> modules be called from WDSC and give you a warm fuzzy?  I know that 
there 
> is a lot of bigotry out there against iSeries Navigator.  Just pretend 
> that they wrote that piece of java code for wdsc first and then plugged 
it 
> into iSeries Navigator, if that's what it takes to overcome bigotry.
> 
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