ECL-10

Eclipse Plug-in Development SWT/JFace

Introduction

• Thin client vs. rich client applications
• Rich client frameworks

RCP UI

• Workbench
• Editors
• Views
• Perspectives
• Preferences
  

RCP Platform

• OSGI framework, bundles
• Eclipse platform runtime
• Extension/points and extensions
• Standalone applications vs. Plug-ins
  

SWT/JFace

• Low-level UI components – display, shell, widgets
• Event handling
• Layout management
• Threading issues
• Higher-level UI – application windows, actions
• JFace viewers and providers
• Forms and databinding

Others

• Rich client application deployment
• Build configuration and dependancy management
• Dependancy management for RCP - based applications and plug-in
• Building outside Eclipse IDE - manual configuration vs. PDE/Build, using ANT and/or Maven for Eclipse RCP based development