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Eclipse RCP tutorials updated

URL: Eclipse Corner articles

At 3:38 PM on Feb 6, 2006, Ed Burnette Javalobby Junkies wrote:

The Rich Client Tutorial was one of the first articles I wrote about Eclipse. When I started it, there was little or no documentation or examples concerning RCP, and limited tooling support. Luckily the situation has improved quite a bit since then, so the tutorials have undergone a couple revisions. I'm happy to announce that I just finished (finally!) a big update to all 3 parts. You can find them here:

Part 1 ( report problems )
Part 2 ( report problems )
Part 3 ( report problems )

Here's a summary of the changes:

Part 1 was simplified to make the product plug-in based instead of feature-based. Several people were having problems getting feature-based products working and I wanted it to be as simple as possible.

Part 2 is largely unchanged except for minor tweaks.

Part 3 was completely rewritten since it has not been updated for 3.1.0 (sorry it took so long). It now explores the RCP Mail template.

All three parts have their source code in zip files. Or you can follow along in the steps to create the same thing yourself.

I don't see an update being necessary for 3.2 because the Platform is pretty stable. Please report any problems, omissions, or suggestions through one of the above bugzilla entries. Enjoy!
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1. At 6:57 PM on Feb 8, 2006, Ken Orr Blooming Javalobby Member wrote:

Re: Eclipse RCP tutorials updated

Great set of articles Ed!

I'm looking to port our application to the Eclipse Framework and have seen many great articles on the visual part of RCP (including your own). That is, setting up views, perspectives, menu bars etc. What I haven't seen though, is detailed information on extension points, the mechanism for feeding these components data. We have various types of data being displayed: streaming data from sensors, positional information of various items (updated via intervalled calls to our own web service). Also, many of the panels are contextually related - that is, if you select an item in a table, it will hightlight the corresponing map element.

Do you know of any books or articles that would be a starting point for the data feeding/connecting aspect of an application?

-Ken
Ken Orr Java User Interface Designer/Developer The MathWorks
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2. At 3:23 AM on Feb 9, 2006, Alex Blewitt DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:

Re: Eclipse RCP tutorials updated

Nice one Ed!

Alex.
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3. At 9:44 AM on Feb 9, 2006, Ed Burnette Javalobby Junkies wrote:

Re: Eclipse RCP tutorials updated

You may like the "Contributing to Eclipse" book by Gamma and Beck; it goes into a lot of the architecture and philosophy behind Eclipse. Also this article:

Make your Eclipse applications richer with view linking
Ed Burnette
Author, Google Web Toolkit, Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide, Eclipse in Action
ZDNet blogger, Dev Connection; former Top Eclipse Ambassador.
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4. At 2:07 PM on Feb 9, 2006, Ken Orr Blooming Javalobby Member wrote:

Re: Eclipse RCP tutorials updated

"Contributing to Eclipse" looks like a great book...thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking for good documentaiton on the Eclipse architecture. The article you suggested was also very helpful.

Thanks,
-Ken
Ken Orr Java User Interface Designer/Developer The MathWorks
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5. At 1:08 AM on Feb 15, 2006, Jon Kosmoski Javalobby Newcomers wrote:

Re: Eclipse RCP tutorials updated

Hi Ed,
Thanks for your RCP tutorials and the recent updates. I'm in the mist of building an RCP app to administer an RBAC security subsystem. I was wondering about unit testing an RCP app. I assume it is basically the same as testing a plugin, but when I tried creating a test plugin it did not seem to work very well. Any tips would be much appreciated. Thx, - Jon
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6. At 9:10 AM on Feb 15, 2006, Ed Burnette Javalobby Junkies wrote:

Re: Eclipse RCP tutorials updated

I haven't tried it but I'd expect it to work the same way as testing a plug-in. A quick search didn't turn up any reported problems doing this but this post might be of interest:

http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/pde-ui-dev/msg00193.html
Ed Burnette
Author, Google Web Toolkit, Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide, Eclipse in Action
ZDNet blogger, Dev Connection; former Top Eclipse Ambassador.
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7. At 3:10 AM on Sep 22, 2006, manugowda Javalobby Newcomers wrote:

How to integrate two separate plugin in Eclipse RCP application

Hello,


Making a RCP Application which includes two seperate plugins.I want the output with clubbing both these two plug-ins.

I followed the following steps.
1) created 2 diff plug-ins and exported them as JARs.
2) in the perspective.java file I have created 2 different layouts(for 2 differnt views).
3) In the about layouts I tried to get the plugins.
4) tried to change the plugin.xml file
5) trying to run a New RCP Application by including these Plug-ins(JARs),and i dont see the my required output.
6) the main application and the 2 separate plug-in has different
perspective.


My question is
what are the changes I need to make in the plugin.xml of the
main RCP application and also in separate plugin application, to
get my required output.

please, please help me out to achieve this...


Thanks in advance,
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8. At 7:30 AM on Sep 28, 2007, sharad Javalobby Regulars wrote:

Re: Eclipse RCP tutorials updated

i think this one is more elaborated then yours but still not perfect :(

http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html#editor_s1a
--- Sharad Singh
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