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What is it
SWT on JavaFX is an experimental SWT port sitting on top of JavaFX. It's main task is to built a compat story to move the Eclipse IDE away from SWT to JavaFX.
How to contribute
- Get JDK8Beta > b120 from https://jdk8.java.net/download.html
- Get Eclipse 4.3 SR 1 from http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.3.1-201309111000/
- Install EGit-Team Provider
- Install JDTBeta8 feature patches from http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/java8/e43
- Install e(fx)clipse tooling
- add update site http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/xtext/updates/composite/releases/
- add update site ttp://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/updates-nightly/site
- Clone https://bitbucket.org/tschindl/e_on_f.git
- Get familiar with the codebase
- Show up at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/swt-javafx and ask questions, and inform others what you plan to work on