Eclipse rich client platform second edition

Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors cover building, refining, and refactoring prototypes; customizing user interfaces; adding help and software management features; and building, branding, testing, and shipping finished software.

They demonstrate current best practices for developing modular and dynamically extensible systems, using third-party code libraries, packaging applications for diverse environments, and much more. Nick Edgar 's opinion: This book is essential reading if you're doing or planning any development with the Rich Client Platform.

This page was last modified , 14 August by Lars Vogel. Chapter Messaging Support Chapter Adding a Login Dialog Chapter Adding Key Bindings Chapter Adding Software Management Chapter Workbench Advisors Chapter Perspectives, Views, and Editors Chapter Customizing Workbench Windows Chapter Customizing the Presentation of Views and Editors Chapter Installing and Updating with p2 Chapter Dynamic Plug-ins Chapter Building Hyperbola Chapter Eclipse Databinding Applications other than IDEs can be built using a subset of the platform.

These rich applications are still based on a dynamic plug-in model, and the UI is built using the same toolkits and extension points. The layout and function of the workbench is under fine-grained control of the plug-in developer in this case. The Eclipse community has put together a set of case studies highlighting the use of RCP technology in a variety of real-world settings. The book begins well, but as soon as you attempt to do things in the IDE, the trouble begins.

The book begins to fall apart in Chapter 3 during the Target Platform Setup. It's completely unworkable. Since that's optional at that point, it can be skipped. It doesn't work and even the code that can be downloaded from the accompanying website doesn't work it runs, but it doesn't do what the book shows it's supposed to. To be fair, up until the roadblock in Chapter 5 and the unworkable Target Platform Setup in Chapter 3 , the book is fairly good. I can't recommend this book to anyone attempting to learn the Eclipse RCP.

If a Version 3 comes out, it may be worth picking up, but that remains to be seen. Stay away from this book unless you have an ERCP expert on hand to get you past the unreliable sections of the book. Boost this thread! Spring Rich Client. Java for Programmers Deitel Developer. Debugging the Eclipse Platform.