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Yesterday I was asked to research the state of table support in SWT/JFace. I must admit I was surprise by what I found. Basically, the requirement was to find ways to implement advanced features like singe cell selection, column drag and drop reordering, and Excel style cell fill. In Swing everything may not be in one open source component, but I can merge the code for the various features I want pretty easily. SWT/JFace was a different story.

For starters I could find that much table related information. I checked out Google, the Eclipse website, and about three years of newsgroup posts. It seems like the features in SWT tables are a common complaint. Below are a few of the "better" resources I found. KTable looks to have the most promise. I'm going to look into it more today. If anyone knows of where all the SWT/JFace table wisdom is hidden please let me know. Also, please note that I would prefer options that are compatible with SWT/Eclipse 2.1. Moving to 3.0 is still out on the horizon.

[Rant] SWT Table API is pure CRAP
This was not a good sign =(.

SWT Code Snippets

KTable

VirtualTable

Example of Drag to Reorder Columns

Decent Thread on SWT Table issues