Can I use WindowBuilder (a Java visual editor Eclipse plugin) without GWT support?

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user558703 picture user558703 · Dec 30, 2010 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

Can I use WindowBuilder (a Java visual editor Eclipse plugin) without Google Web Toolkit (GWT) support?

I'm a little bit confused about it. It seems that it is integrated with GWT to build Google web applications.

But can I use it to build a GUI for standard Java applications (like NetBeans)?

I know it sounds silly, but I spend a lot of time to know if is it possible or not, but I couldn't know.

Notice that I am a Mac user, (WindowBuilder on Mac seems not fully supported).

Answer

Eric Clayberg - Google picture Eric Clayberg - Google · Jan 5, 2011

WindowBuilder supports creating SWT, RCP, XWT and Swing apps in addition to GWT apps. It is fully supported under Windows, Linux and OSX. It was recently announced that Google is donating the WindowBuilder Engine along with the SWT and Swing tooling to Eclipse.org.

If you are unable to open a non-GWT file and receive an "Unknown GUI toolkit" error, this means that you either have a classpath problem (our project has not been configured to use any UI toolkit) or you have an incomplete installation of WindowBuilder (for example, if you only have the GWT portion of WB loaded, you would not be able to edit SWT or Swing UIs).

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