I just finished dragging my students through Java I/II including a very Swing/AWT-heavy romp through GUI programming.

I explained the difference between AWT and Swing and since we use Eclipse as our IDE, also mentioned SWT. This was definitely the toughest section of the course but my class soldiered through. (As a reward, I slowed down the pace and gave them more hands-on projects which they enjoy more than listening to me lecture.)

I'm interested to hear more about this Eclipse GUI builder, though. I'm assuming it's a plug-in, but I don't remember seeing it in the list.