Best way for gui programming? swing awt jfc swt ....

hi,
i have been programming java for some time but exclusively for web, servlets, jsp etc..
but now i have to do some �real� gui�s. I have no gui experience , (ok I did some basic examples just to see how things work) but/and I�m not able to determine which way I should go.
So I did some google search and read some threads here im forum on topics swing vs. awt (or so) and found lot of topics with lot of different opinions(some of them also a little bit out of date) so now im CONFUSED more then ever.
I read people asking questions like :what is better awt or swing and then getting the perfect technical answers like :
AWT components are NOT native components. AWT components are Java objects. Particular instances of AWT componets (Button, Label, etc.) MAY use peers to handle the rendering and event handling. Those peers do NOT have to be native components. And AWT components are NOT required to use peers for themselves at all.
Or
There are some significant differences between lightweight and heavyweight components. And, since all AWT components are heavyweight and all Swing components are lightweight (except for the top-level ones: JWindow, JFrame, JDialog, and JApplet), these differences become painfully apparent when you start mixing Swing components with AWT components.
But I don�t care that much(at least not now) about this detail answers.
I would simply like to know from some experienced gui guru, (due to the fact that we have 2005 and java 1.5) if u would like to learn gui in java quickly and know everything u know now which way would u choose:
AWT
JFC
SWING
SWT
And which IDE would u use.
I simply want to get quickly started and do some basic gui programming ,nothing special, but I would like to avoid that after weeks of doing one, then find out the was the wrong one and again learn the another one.
TIA Nermin

try swt vs swing and see what you think, its not really a decision someone else can make for you. as long as you don't try and mix the two, it should be a similar learning curve either way.

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