How to interface to SWT and other beginner questions

Hello everyone !

I'm new to this list so a few words about me seem to be opportune. I'm a
hobby programmer with some experiance in C/C++ and a few higher level
languages, but at most plain C. I have no clue about Make, Ant, CVS and such
tools because I allways used some kind of IDE (LccWin32 on win2k currently).
For a planed portable project I've lately experimented with java/eclipse/swt
and are impressed by the IDE as well as the rich set of java libraries but
unsatisfied by the java language itself. So I looked around, found Nice most
promissing and some questions arise....

Up to now I've installed the Eclipse-Plugin succesfully and very simple
programs like HelloWorld with console output run from the command line.
Starting the project.jar from the command-line is somewhat anoying hence I
wonder wether there are more convinient ways to do it. The eclipse
run-dialog seems not to accept nice projects.

Second: I have to interface SWT. The example on the wiki runs with a
niceswt.jar which I cannot find. But I would prefer to interface SWT
directly anyway so the question is how to tell the Eclipse-Plugin where to
find the swt jar and the project to accept the corresponding import
statements.

One last question (for now:-): How mature ist Nice ? The version number
0.9.8 suggests that it's basic concepts are quite stable. Is that correct?

Thanks in advance

Peter



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