19. Eclipse RCP Your Server communication Your Security Your UI Layer Help P2 Update Other Stuff Workbench Your data model JFace Runtime / Equinox (OSGi) SWT
24. Extensions Extension Points Provide functionality to predefined slots (== extension points) Define places where others (== extensions) can provide functionality
26. Thin layer upon the native GUI libraries JNI calls Not a lot of convenient functionality SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit
27. JFace UI toolkit that provides helper classes for developing UI features Makes SWT nicer but does not hide its complexity Tables / TreeViewer / Dialogs / Databinding Workbench multi-window environment manages views, editors, perspectives JFace & Workbench
29. Find in Eclipse which parts you are looking at Make coding analysis and re-use extremly easy Shortcut Alt+Shift+F1 Add org.eclipse.pde.runtime and org.eclipse.ui.forms as dependency to have Plug-in Spy in your own RCP application 29 Excursus: Plug-in Spy How did he do it? Plugin Spy = Shortcut Alt+Shift+F1 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009
36. Eclipse: Where to go from here: Eclipse Wiki http://wiki.eclipse.org/ Eclipse RCP Tutorial http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html Eclipse Plugin Development http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipsePlugIn/article.html Eclipse e4 Tutorial http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseE4/article.html
51. Thank you For further questions: Lars.Vogel@gmail.com http://www.vogella.de http://www.twitter.com/vogella
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