If you want to proceed quickly from Hello World to a complex application, I suggest looking at Eclipse RCP, which uses SWT. Whether it is suitable will depend

If you want to proceed quickly from Hello World to a complex application, I suggest looking at Eclipse RCP, which uses SWT. Whether it is suitable will depend on what kind of app you want to build. Here's a list (with screenshots) of open-source apps that use Eclipse RCP: http://www.eclipse.org/community/rcpos.php http://www.eclipse.org/community/rcpos.php