The Eclipse Rich Client Platform provides a feature rich framework for the development of rich client applications. This talk presents tips and tricks for the development of such applications. Kai introduces some general development tricks that are helpful for all users of the Eclipse SDK. E.g. the usage of extension locations in combination with links, conditional breakpoints, and some logging tips.
XML contributions vs. code
Eclipse RCP offers several ways of contributing UI elements to the
application: Pure Java code, predefined actions and declarative
extension points. Kai introduces these different approaches with pros
and cons and will give recommendations.
Package and Plug-in Structures
In the Java world we often see best practices regarding how to
structure the software. Kai will introduce common practices from the
Eclipse world covering how to create package and plug-in structures.
Deployment & Update
One of the building blocks often reused in domain specific rich client
applications is "update". Kai discusses several ways how a developer
could leverage the update functionality of the Eclipse RCP. Also
several deployment options are discussed.
Issues when using 3rd Party Libraries
With 3rd party libraries there are some typical issues in the Eclipse
world: How to package them so they could be reused in an OSGi based
environment, and how to deal with dynamically created classes that
often lead to ClassNotFound exceptions or NoClassDefFound errors.
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