Criticism on SWT

The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a graphical widget toolkit for the Java platform. It conceived as an alternative to the AWT or Swing toolkits provided by Sun Microsystems. It has the intent for better performance (to run faster and and to consume less memory), native look and feel and deep platform integration.

As there is already a lot of discussion about Swing and SWT on the web and I will not compare them again. I personally prefer SWT because I felt more productive with this toolkit. Nevertheless, I still did not yet feel productive enough to consider SWT valuable. Let me explain why.

Java and incorrect timezone on Windows XP

How reliable is Java date, time and timezone API? In this article I discuss a relevant issue that may compromise application correctness when relying not only on date/time calculations, but also on reporting date/time according to local timezone and locale.