Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java Applications (Eclipse (Addison-Wesley))

The definitive guide to Eclipse rich client development - fully revised to

reflect Eclipse 3.4's major enhancements

° Hands-on, practical, and thorough: builds on the highly-successful First Edition that is

already the industry's #1 source of information on rich client Eclipse development

° Covers Eclipse 3.4's improvements for designing, coding, and packaging RCP

applications - information too new to appear in any other book!

° Includes extensive real-world, non-trivial working code examples

Summary

Eclipse is more than a state-of-the-art IDE: together with the Eclipse RCP

plug-ins, it's an outstanding foundation for any desktop application, from

media players to enterprise software front-ends. What's more, the new Eclipse

3.4 offers even more powerful capabilities for designing, coding, and packaging

rich client applications. In Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Second Edition,

leaders of the Eclipse RCP project show exactly how to leverage these

capabilities for rapid, efficient, cross-platform desktop development.

Building on their highly praised First Edition, the authors walk step-by-step

through developing a fully-featured, branded RCP application. They introduce

a wide range of techniques, including developing pluggable and dynamically

extensible systems; using third party code libraries; and packaging applications

for diverse environments. Readers will build a complete prototype, refine and

refactor it, customize user interfaces, add Help and Update features, then build,

brand, and ship finished software. Along the way, the authors cover each key

RCP-related technology, including Equinox, SWT, and JFace to OSGi; and

demonstrate best-practice solutions to the unique challenges of Eclipse RCP

development.

Hands-on, pragmatic, and comprehensive, this book offers the real-world, nontrivial

code examples working developers need - as well as "deep dives" into

key technical areas that can make all the difference in building successful

applications.