Keeping it Simple

I've been working on a passtime project that includes a java client side application. Swing seemed to be the natural choice, and eventhough i had some experience with it, i decided to go the SWT way. So I got down and downloaded eclipse, ditching my favorite IntelliJ. And as expected problems galore !
Why does eclipse have to be such a pain? I kept asking myself. But in a couple of hours things started to smooth out, and i was happily jogging through my first few SWT shells. The technology sure is incredibly attrative, using the underlying OS to get the rendering work done is nothing new to java, since the AWT was based upon this idea. But the SWT design is really interesting and how they set about to do this is really great. check out this article.