eclipse-rcp

I am going to design Java Desktop Application. While I was design web application, I got plenty of choice, e.g. Spring, Strut etc. However, for Java Desktop (which is new to me), I don't find any. Is that Eclipse RCP a Java Desktop Framework, which works like Spring mvc in Web apps? I wonder, can I use Spring to enjoy the benefit of IOC, together with Eclipse RCP to enjoy the benefit of both world? Please advise. Thanks. In java desktop land, you have 2 major choices : Swing or SWT. I'm ignoring AWT on this one. QTJambi is not that used in Java. Most Java desktop applications use Java Swing.

I'm about to start a fairly big application for my company, and since it HAS to be cross platform, we're pointing towards Java (would have loved C#, but explored the Xamarin ecosystem and the Mac part seems to be quite behind the rest package...) Now, I'm evaluating both Netbeans 8 and Eclipse 4 as RCP. Before I continue I have to say that I've been maintaining for almost a year our previous software which was written in Netbeans Platform, but it has so many performance issues and so many bugs (some of which, it seems, tied to the platform itself -- i.e. plugins not updating with no apparen

In the past, we had our bundles and features on the file system and made them available in Eclipse through a target definition file with a 'Directory' location. In this way, it was easy to use them with the Export wizards in Eclipse. Now I'm trying to build an eclipse-plugin with Tycho which has third party dependencies, e.g. javax.vecmath and org.apache.commons.math . From what I know, the best way to obtain the dependencies in a Tycho build is through a p2 repository. So I'm using one for the Eclipse bundles. But for my third-party bundles, it seems that there is no p2 repository available.

Question about Eclipse RCP and whole perspective/view/editor design - what is the best way to create application which will display multiple windows on multiple monitors? Tutorials and book I've seen always pack RCP/SWT design into views inside perspective within single application window. Should one window rule all others or they all should be equal (closing last one exits application)? How deal with the perspectives and views? Are there any other things we should know? Environment: Eclipse Ganymede, Windows XP. A single Eclipse workbench can create multiple windows. Each window is laid out

I have built a simple Eclipse plugin where a user may use a TableViewer of database resources to open an editor on any of those resources. Users may therefore have zero upwards instances of the editor running. Is there an API available to get a list of those editor instances? You can get references to all open editors with: PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow() .getActivePage().getEditorReferences(); And then check these to select the ones that reference instances of your editor type. According to the javadoc for the API a workbench can have several windows, and a window can

I am trying to create a console that would work as a shell for a custom programming language. It would be very similar to the pydev interactive console. Currently, my RCP uses the basic TextConsole and is connected to the shell via pipes so it just displays whatever the shell displays and if the user enters anything in the RCP console, the same is written in the shell. I want to be able to do a bit more such as move the caret position, add events for up and down arrow keys etc. I believe to do that I need to add a StyledText widget to the console which is done via the ConsoleViewer. So my

Is there somewhere a list of all possibilities, to define dependencies in an Eclipse RCP project? maybe filtered by resources? Possible dependencies: from other Eclipse RCP Plugins by package, without explicitely defining the plugin jar libs ... as you said, you can use the following directives in the MANIFEST.MF to define dependencies Require-Bundle (for depending on specified bundles) Import-Package (for depending on packages available by export from other bundles) Bundle-Classpath (for embedded paths(!) and JARs) also, when you create a Fragment , it must define its Fragment-Host , of