Developing Your First Eclipse RCP Application

An anonymous reader writes "The objective of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) is to enable Eclipse to be used in a wide range of end-user applications that are not integrated development environments (IDEs). With the release of Eclipse V3.1, it is easy to create RCP applications. This tutorial will guide you step by step in building your very own RCP application."

Re:Bugmenot

[g051051]

RCP and Swing are two different things. You want to compare SWT and Swing. And that's a Holy War I'm not inclined to get involved in.

I'm using RCP to develop an in-house application, and I'm very impressed. Once you get over the huge learning curve (because the RCP framework encompasses such a large set of functionality), it's very nice. The Eclipse PDE is a nice dvelopment environment. The plugin metaphor is very powerful, and seems to work quite well. I'm also using the EMF (Eclipse Modelling Framework), and purchased WindowBuilder Pro [windowbuilderpro.com] to help out with the GUI work.