Developing Eclipse Rich Client Applications (RCP)

Given by the authors of various articles and regular conference speakers, this Power Workshop covers everything you need to start building applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). Through the tutorial you will develop a small RCP application complete with branding, building and packaging the application and discussing how you can organize your development environment and processes to be a more effective RCP programmer. To complete the experience, special attention is paid to designing the architecture of larger RCP applications including self-defined Extension-Points and structuring plug-ins. The tutorial covers existing Eclipse 3.4 function as well as the latest RCP tooling and facility innovations in Eclipse 3.5. You need a notebook with Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers version 3.4.1 or later installed.

Advanced Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)

In this tutorial, Kai will introduce and discuss some advanced topics in the area of Eclipse RCP based applications. This is a "Hands-on" tutorial, most topics consist of lectures and exercises.

• Adapter factories
• Virtual trees & tables
• Customizing Look & Feel using the Presentation API
• p2, the new provisioning system
• Headless p2 build for RCP applications

Requirements: Java & Eclipse RCP know how required, Notebook with Java 5 or 6 and latest Eclipse Classic 3.4.x installed.