There are many applications we would like to have on eComStation and OS/2. When it comes to Java and you are a developer this will be the Eclipse IDE for your daily development work or if you are no software developer you might be interested in torrents and would like to use Azureus.

Both applications use the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) which is missing on eComStation and OS/2. This alone would not help but it's then easy to get the apps running, as SWT is the major stopper.
There is some work going on to port SWT to OS/2 but this will take a while to get done.

There might be an alternative called SWTSwing....

I've started a discussion at the OS2World.com forum ("Programming" section) about the SWTSwing project that would be very helpful to get applications like Azureus, Eclipse (using the EoS project) and other applications using the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) running on OS/2 and eComStation with plain Java Swing.

I hope some people will join the discussion to convince Christopher Deckers (SWTSwing) and Dieter Krachtus (EoS project together with Christopher) that it's worth the extra work and trouble to get SWTSwing running on Java v1.4.x.

We also need some developers to help them and some people for testing the results, when SWTSwing is running on eComStation based on Java v1.4.x (by Golden Code or Innotek)!

Here you can join the SWTSwing discussion:
SWTSwing alternative way to use applications using SWT (e.g. Azureus, Eclipse)?


Many thanks!

Kind regards,
Juergen Ulbts

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