(SWT) The Eclipse Foundation' s framework for developing graphical user interfaces in Java. SWT is written in explicitly standard Java but uses the {Java Native Interface} to talk to a {platform}-native GUI library. SWT is the third major attempt to give Java a decent GUI framework, following AWT and Swing. Of the three, SWT is the most consistent with the native GUIs but its programming model is hard to port to non-Windows platforms. Wikipedia . (2004-12-21)