Practical Eclipse Rich Client Platform Projects

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Foundations of Eclipse RCP

   Pages 1-19

3. Plug-ins: A First Glimpse

   Pages 21-51

4. RCP Basics

   Pages 53-76

5. User Interface Concepts

   Pages 77-106

6. Forms API and Presentation Framework

   Pages 107-140

7. Help Support

   Pages 141-171

8. 2D Graphics with GEF and Zest

   Pages 173-208

9. 3D Graphics for RCP with OpenGL

   Pages 209-259

10. Professional Reports with the Business Intelligence and Report Toolkit

    Pages 261-290

11. Automated Updates

    Pages 291-324

12. Back Matter

    Pages 325-335

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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.

• Eclipse
• Linux
• Rich Client Platform (RCP)
• Windows
• development
• framework
• language
• operating system
• programming
• programming language
• software
• user interface

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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