Benefits of porting to the CDE desktop include:
Taking advantage of new features offered by CDE
Providing easy portability on a wide variety of platforms
Enabling better "ease of use" by ensuring that your application behaves according to the CDE style guidelines
Providing interoperability with other Solaris CDE applications in areas where the Solaris CDE and OpenWindows environments differ, for example:
Window manager interaction
Drag and drop
Session management