Introducing SWT Evolve: a new drop-in modern renderer
Transform your desktop application for today’s world without costly rewrites required.
✅Modern UX
✅Web deployment
✅Same code logic you trust
Learn more about SWT Evolve: https://t.co/3OdkB9ULUf
After talking to dozens of engineering teams at OCX in Brussels and customers in Germany, one thing is clear: the conversation around legacy software has fundamentally shifted. The future is about evolution, not replacement.
SWT Evolve promised instant modernization for Eclipse RCP applications.
At OCX 2026, real teams proved it with real applications: modern UI/UX and web-ready results in seconds, without rewrites.
This is the path forward.
Read more: https://t.co/hnIVnOAF1v
At OCX 2026, Sebastian Sampaoli and Guillermo Zunino showed SWT Evolve modernizing SWT and Eclipse RCP apps instantly: modern UI, web access, and cloud-ready capabilities without rewrites.
For teams facing costly migrations, this is worth watching: https://t.co/5BPfAfe5BO
Check out the @ocfortooling at #OCX recap blog, sharing insights on key topics covered, highlights and takeaways.
Read the blog 👉 https://t.co/ciE9rRwOPQ
Watch the recordings 👉 https://t.co/qbSbQrxGFJ
#OCX26#tooling#developer#devtools#opensource
April Product Update
This April was one of the most important months in Equo’s history.
✅ Equo Chromium v144 stable release
✅ SWT Evolve at OCX 2026
✅ Client-Side Decorations and Chrome Style support
✅ Expanded Subscribe() API
✅ Standalone and lifecycle improvements
Final day at #OCX2026 🚀
Sebastian Sampaoli and Guillermo Zunino shared a different approach to modernizing SWT & Eclipse RCP applications without starting from scratch.
Great energy and strong interest around the topic.
The Equo team is at @ocxconference !
Come say hi, meet the team, and discover a new path for SWT and Eclipse RCP modernization.
If you’re around, stop by our booth. We’d love to meet you.
We’re live at Open Community Experience 2026🚀
Bring your SWT / Eclipse RCP application to our booth
→ See it modernized instantly
→ No rewrites
Modern UI. Web-ready. Running in minutes.
Most teams avoid modernization because of the trade-offs. Rewrites. Risk. Time.
What if you didn’t need any of that? Bring your SWT or Eclipse RCP application to our booth at OCX 2026. See it modernized instantly.
No rewrites. Your Java code stays.
Your web UI, your window.
With Client-Side Decorations in Equo Chromium, you can build desktop applications with custom title bars, native window behavior, and zero UI toolkit dependency.
Equo Chromium v144 is out.
Focused on bringing modern web platform capabilities to Java desktop applications:
• New CSS & UI rendering
• New APIs (Temporal, IndexedDB)
• Built-in AI primitives
• WebGPU compatibility
Full details 👇
https://t.co/mZXSpgsGHB
Eclipse RCP isn’t legacy — it’s evolving!
With SWT Evolve, teams can fully modernize their desktop applications and bring them to the browser without rewrites or feature-parity gaps.
Modern desktop. Web-ready delivery. A stronger future for long-lived Eclipse RCP applications.
GC is the foundation of custom graphics in Eclipse RCP, and also one of its biggest modernization challenges.
We’ve taken a new approach that preserves existing behavior while unlocking modern rendering.
No rewrites. No breakage. More details ↓
https://t.co/4T0GWVZA7p
Wrapping up 2025!
SWT Evolve became a real modernization path for SWT and Eclipse RCP applications, Equo Chromium kept pushing embedded web forward, and next we’re working on revitalizing the Eclipse IDE as the Equosystem grows.
Read full blog: https://t.co/SfyrAU4AIU
The Equosystem is bigger than you may think.
There are thousands of Java desktop applications out there that need to feel modern and can’t afford a rewrite from scratch.
So we mapped the kinds of products and teams where Equo fits best.
Read the blog: https://t.co/9bFNnlZ2hr
Introducing Equo Chromium’s latest feature: the new Subscribe() API.
A clean, unified way to handle browser events in real time. Block popups, intercept navigation, track loads all with one line of code.
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