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.

With millions of downloads, Eclipse's popularity as an open source universal tool platform continues to grow rapidly and the SWT is one of the most important common facilities the Eclipse framework provides.Covering the latest SWT/JFace version 3.0, this book begins with a introduction to the fundamentals of the SWT/JFace framework.Then the author introduces each widget, using Java source code to show you how to use the widget effectivly.