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SWT UI Toolkit is limited as a minimal abstraction layer above the UI layer of the operating system. Additional features such as the filling of the UI components using Java model objects are provided in [http://wiki.eclipse.org/JFace JFace].
[http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/jface.htm JFace is a UI toolkit ] that provides helper classes for developing UI features that can be tedious to implement. JFace operates above the level of a raw widget system and includes classes for handling common UI programming tasks:* [http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/jface.htm Viewers] handle the drudgery of populating, sorting, filtering, and updating widgets.
* Actions and contributions introduce semantics for defining user actions and specifying where to make them available.
* Image and font registries provide common patterns for handling UI resources.
