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I want to use Eclipse and AWT to leverage the MS Windows heavy-weight UI components. I need to develop a power-user UI in a hurry. I am comfy with Eclipse. Can anybody suggest plugins that will outperform or at least rival the development power of Developer Studio while providing access to a broad set of UI components available in Windows? TIA.
AWT isn’t the way to go. It will not provide you with access to many of the more complex Windows controls. The set of controls available in AWT is based on what is available natively across all platforms that Java supports, which isn’t a very rich set. There hasn’t been much development on AWT for a very long time. You should consider it a deprecated framework.
For desktop app development in Java, there are two prominent frameworks: Swing and SWT. Swing controls are rendered in Java (not native). SWT controls are native where available and rendered where not available.
SWT
For a form builder editor plugin, see WindowBuilder.