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What are differences between Actions and Commands in the context of Eclipse RCP? I know that they both contribute to the menu entries, but which one is better? And why? Of all the online resources I read, I could not get a firm understanding of the differences between both. I have not actually tried to use them, but just wanted to understand them to start with from higher level point of view. Thanks Did you read the eclipse wiki FAQ What is the difference between a command and an action? You probably already understand that Actions and Commands basically do the same thing: They cause a certain

I am using java and RCP and I am trying to show pdf Document with Acrobat on my views. I don't need to change them. I have this error with this code. Any idea how to resolve this problem?. P.s.: it works good same times. PDFFile pdfFile; pdfFile = PdfFileLoader.loadPdf(file, new NullProgressMonitor()); PdfDocument pdfDocument = new OneDimensionalPdfDocument(pdfFile, new NullProgressMonitor()); pdfViewer.setPdfDocument(pdfDocument); Error from PdfDocument pdfDocument = new OneDimensionalPdfDocument(pdfFile, new NullProgressMonitor()) : Unsupport CMap format: 6 java.nio.BufferUnderflowException

I have a plug-in to an Eclipse RCP application that has a view. After an event occurs in the RCP application, the plug-in is instantiated, its methods are called to populate the plug-in's model, but I cannot find how to make the view appear without going to the "Show View..." menu. I would think that there would be something in the workbench singleton that could handle this, but I have not found out how anywhere. You are probably looking for this: PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().showView("viewId"); If called from handler of a command HandlerUtil