How do you build an SWT application with Maven

Question

I trying to learn swt, and I use maven for all my builds and eclipse for my IDE. When getting the swt jars out of the maven repository, I get:

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Answer 1

I have uploaded the win32/64 & osx artifacts of the latest SWT version (4.2.2) to a googlecode repository, you can find it here:

https://swt-repo.googlecode.com/svn/repo/

To use it just put the following in your pom.xml:

    
        swt-repo
        https://swt-repo.googlecode.com/svn/repo/
    

Then you can just reference the SWT dependency relevant to your platform. For example:

    
        org.eclipse.swt
        org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86
        4.2.2
    

For other platforms, just replace artifactId with the appropriate value:

• org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86
• org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_64
• org.eclipse.swt.cocoa.macosx
• org.eclipse.swt.cocoa.macosx.x86_64

Artifacts for additional platforms and older versions are available as well, visit the repository link above to find them.

Happy coding!