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Adobe Announces Project to Port Java SWT to Cocoa
by , 6:00 PM EDT, June 10th, 2008
Sott Kovatch, Senior Computer Scientist of Adobe Systems, announced on Tuesday at WWDC that he will be leading a project to port Java SWT to Cocoa. He emphasized that the announcement is not under the WWDC NDA.
Mr. Kovatch said that while he won't be on the project full time until August, decent progress has been made so far. The plan is to get this into the Eclipse 3.5 stream. He also said that he expects to have two Adobe engineers working with him on the project and that Adobe expects to make good use of the technology in future Adobe projects.
For more information, visit: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/cocoaport.php .
TMO will provide more details as they become available.
Observer Comments
Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:53 pm Subject: re: What the iPhone is missing.
This has nothing to do with the iPhone. Eclipse is, ostensibly, a platform for building desktop applications, but most people think of it as an IDE (integrated development environment) for developing Java applications, and that's how it gets most of it's use. SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) is a cross platform collection of "widgets," or UI elements, and a way to build GUIs.
On the Mac, SWT is implemented via Carbon. Porting it to Cocoa may bring several benefits, but running on the iPhone is not one of them. SWT applications still require Java, which the iPhone doesn't have. This is likely a way to keep up with the progress of Mac OS X, and Cocoa appears to be the preferred application framework there. If rumors are to believed, Snow Leopard will make this even clearer.
Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:56 pm Subject: More corrections
The man's name is Scott Kovatch, and unless something has changed since November, he employed by Apple, not Adobe.
http://inside-swt.blogspot.com/2007/11/hacking-at-apple.html
EDIT: Corrected my own spelling mistake, of Scott's last name.
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