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Practical Eclipse Rich Client Platform Projects

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Authors:
  1. Vladimir Silva
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  • First practical projects/case studies type book on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
  • May likely be the only up to date book on Eclipse RCP
  • Eclipse is still the leading, adopted Open Source Java IDE (Integrated Development Environment) Platform, and is backed by one of the world’s largest IT companies, IBM

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Foundations of Eclipse RCP

    Pages 1-19
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  3. Plug-ins: A First Glimpse

    Pages 21-51
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  4. RCP Basics

    Pages 53-76
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  5. User Interface Concepts

    Pages 77-106
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  6. Forms API and Presentation Framework

    Pages 107-140
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  7. Help Support

    Pages 141-171
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  8. 2D Graphics with GEF and Zest

    Pages 173-208
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  9. 3D Graphics for RCP with OpenGL

    Pages 209-259
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  10. Professional Reports with the Business Intelligence and Report Toolkit

    Pages 261-290
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  11. Automated Updates

    Pages 291-324
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  12. Back Matter

    Pages 325-335
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About this book

Eclipse and the Rich Client Platform (RCP) together form a leading development platform. It provides a lightweight software component framework based on plug–ins. In addition to allowing Eclipse to be extended using other programming languages, it provides the key to the seamless integration of tools with Eclipse. The RCP gives Eclipse its modularity: Eclipse employs plug–ins in order to provide all of its functionality on top of (and including) the RCP, in contrast to some other applications where functionality is typically hard–coded. RCP apps are platform independent: they can be built for all major operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and Mac from a single code base. And the RCP provides a professional look and feel for applications.

Practical Eclipse Rich Client Platform Projects is a clear and technical guide for Eclipse developers to help them enhance their knowledge and achieve their goals quickly.

  • The book explains the technical concepts easily and in an engaging way.
  • The text provides plenty of source code and images as learning aids.
  • Several practical projects and case studies are included.

About the author

Vladimir Silva holds a master's degree in computer science from Middle Tennessee State University. He worked for four years at IBM as a research engineer, where he acquired extensive experience in distributed and grid computing research. Vladimir is a highly technical, focus-based individual and team player. He belongs to two national honor societies, has published many computer science articles for IBM, and is author of Grid Computing for Developers (Charles River Media, 2005) and RCP Practical Projects (Apress, 2008).

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