Books
Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applications (Eclipse Series)
Amazon Price: $49.14 (as of 10/10/2008)
Tutorials
- Customizing Eclipse RCP applications
- This tutorial will explain a number of UI elements that can be changed in Eclipse RCP, JFace, and SWT. Along the way, you will learn about basic changes you can make, such as fonts and colors. You will also learn advanced techniques, including how to create custom wizards and section headers. Using these in conjunction should provide you the ability to go from a typical-looking Eclipse RCP application to a distinctive but visually appealing one.
- Eclipse's Rich Client Platform, Part 1: Getting started
- The first part of a two-part series, this tutorial explores Eclipse's Rich Client Platform (RCP). An example application shows you how to assemble an RCP to create an elegant, client-side interface for your own business applications. The application creates a front end for the Google API and gives you the ability to query and display search results. Having an application that demonstrates some of these technologies in action provides an understanding of the platform and its usefulness within some of your projects.
- Eclipse's Rich Client Platform, Part 2: Extending the generic workbench
- The second in a two-part series. Inconsistent and unusable for education purposes.
- Developing your first Eclipse RCP application
- This tutorial builds an application using the Eclipse RCP. The example application is divided into four sections, each building on the previous one. You start by creating a basic RCP application with the help of one of the Eclipse-supplied RCP templates. Next, you add some actions, a preference page, a view, and Help to the basic RCP application. This is followed by branding and turning the basic RCP application into a product. The final step takes you through packaging and deploying the RCP product outside of Eclipse.
- Understanding JFace data binding in Eclipse, Part 1: The pros and cons of data binding
- This article explains what a data binding framework does, introduces several popular Java GUI data binding frameworks, and covers the pros and cons of using data binding.
- Understanding how Eclipse plug-ins work with OSGi
- The core of the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications is driven by an implementation of the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) specification. This article illustrates Eclipse's relationship with OSGi by describing what a plug-in is in terms of the Eclipse platform and traces the evolution of plug-ins from Eclipse V2.1 through today's OSGi-based implementation. It also explains the OSGi manifest.mf file options, along with the additions provided through Eclipse.
- 3 Eclipse RCP tutorials
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- Creating an Eclipse View
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See also
- SWT and JFace
- Squidoo lens about SWT and JFace
- OSGi
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