Adobe Announces Project to Port Java SWT to Cocoa

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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 wonit 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.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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