What GUI framework should I use? [closed]

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I'd like a GUI framework that works on both Windows and Linux.

I'm confused because Googling has returned a lot of different ones.

Since I'm coming from a C# background, lots of choices means I don't know which one is the best to use and might start learning one that is discontinued or generally frowned upon by the Java community.

Thanks.

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I also suggest to choose a RCP (Rich Client Platform) rather than just a basic GUI toolkit (such as Swing, SWT, Windows Forms, WPF,...).

This leaves you basically with 2 choices:

• NetBeans Platform (Swing based)
• Eclipse RCP (SWT based)

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In java the most famous are:

• awt (it was used widely years ago, no more)
• swing (IMO the most used)(jdownloader, the topcoder arena are good examples, even the official IDE netbeans have a GUI builder for swing)
• javafx, intended to replace flash like programs.

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You may be interested in Swing (native Java GUI toolkit, so most popular) or Qt Jambi (Qt bindings for Java)