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

Since 2013 (this post inception year), things has changed. SWT is now published on Maven Central. Here are the coordinates as of this writing:

    org.eclipse.platform
    org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_64
    ${swt.version}

You may find this ticket interesting.

Latest SWT artefacts for windows 64bit: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.eclipse.platform/org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86_64