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Asked: 2026-05-19T13:45:27+00:00

I have maybe dump question but it can’t get it off my mind. I’m

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I have maybe dump question but it can’t get it off my mind. I’m starting to learn SWT and wonder why it’s recommended to use SWT like imported project in Eclipse as described in eclipse wiki. Isn’t it better to reference SWT like normal library and link a jar file in to your project?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The recommendation is to make it easier for the user to quickly configure an SWT library reference correctly with all the bells and whistles. If you take a look at the SWT distro, you will see a .classpath file that tells the SWT java project what is a library, where to find its source code and javadoc. Here is an exerpt:

    <classpathentry exported="true" sourcepath="src.zip" kind="lib" path="swt.jar">
    <attributes>
        <attribute value="http://help.eclipse.org/stable/nftopic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/" name="javadoc_location"/>
        <attribute value="org.eclipse.swt" name="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.CLASSPATH_ATTR_LIBRARY_PATH_ENTRY"/>
    </attributes>
</classpathentry>

    You can certainly do the equivalent reference straight from your own project.

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