System Requirements

WindowBuilder/SWT Designer/Swing Designer Requirements

  • Windows 2003/XP/Vista or Linux+GTK2

  • OSX 10.5 (requires Eclipse 3.4 & latest JDK)

  • Any Eclipse 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5 based IDE

    • Eclipse SDK 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 3.4.x or 3.5 (JDK 1.4 or higher)

    • Rational Application Developer 7.5.x

    • Rational Application Developer 7.0.x

    • Rational Application Developer 6.0.x

    • Etc.

GWT Designer Requirements

  • Windows 2003/XP/Vista or Linux+GTK2

  • OSX 10.5 (requires Eclipse 3.4 & latest JDK)

  • GWT 1.4.6x, 1.5.x or higher from http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html

  • Any Eclipse 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5 based IDE

    • Eclipse SDK 3.3.x, 3.4.x or 3.5

    • Rational Application Developer 7.5.x

    • Rational Application Developer 7.0.x

    • Etc.


Note that for new Eclipse development streams, we only support releases and stable builds. We do not support nightly or integration builds, and we do not support any unofficial or experimental patches. If you load any patches, you do so at your own risk.


Manually installing features and plug-ins on a FAT file system (Windows only)

Eclipse 3.x and other IDEs based upon Eclipse 3.x may not immediately recognize new tools if they are not installed using the Eclipse Install and Update Manager. This occurs because Eclipse 3.x caches plug-in information for a faster startup at the cost of not recognizing changes to the installed plugins. To workaround this problem, include the "-clean" option on the command line used to startup Eclipse. The "-clean" option causes Eclipse to reparse and recache the plug-in information, picking up any newly installed or revised features. Once the plug-in information has been recached and Designer appears as expected, you can remove the "-clean" option.