Build GUIs with the Eclipse Visual Editor project (IBM developerWorks)

[Posted May 12, 2004 by cook]

David Gallardo introduces the Eclipse Visual Editor project on IBM's developerWorks. "Like many Eclipse.org projects, the goal of the Visual Editor project is to build a tool for building tools -- in this case, tools for building graphical user interfaces. The most interesting thing about the Visual Editor Project is that it has already released a reference implementation. The Visual Editor release 0.5 is a GUI builder for AWT/Swing applications, an Eclipse feature that has long been awaited. Coming soon in release 1.0, slated for delivery in mid-2004, is added support for SWT. In this article, you'll get an overview of Visual Editor and the technology behind it, along with a short demonstration of Visual Editor 0.5's features for building AWT/Swing applications and a preview of the SWT support in Visual Editor 1.0."