How to communicate between views in Eclipse RCP?

Question

In Eclipse RCP, I am creating views for the Perspective using IPageLayout.addView(...)

But this way I don\'t have a reference to the view. Therefore I d

Answer 1

There are different ways for view and plugin communications: eventbroker, listener etc..

EvenBroker (e4) Implementation: Use eventbroker to send message (string) between views and plugins.

Sender Side:

@Inject
private IEventBroker eventBroker; 
private static final String STATUS ="status";
eventBroker.send(STATUS, "status test message..");

Receiver Side:

@Inject
private IEventBroker eventBroker; 
private static final String STATUS ="status";
@Inject @Optional
public void  getEvent(@UIEventTopic(STATUS) String message) {
    ... //call method 
}