Abstract

By now Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is well known as an open source project dedicated to provide a robust platform for developing highly integrated tools. Since version 3.0 Eclipse has expanded its scope to become a general platform upon which anybody can add software components to build end user
applications. This is enabled by a scalable plug-in architecture which supports controlled extensibility. This talk provides an overview of the architecture and API of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. A concrete example illustrates how the platform is used to build an integrated desktop application.

Audience

all

Speaker(s)

Dirk Bäumer leads the Eclipse JDT/UI component and is a member of the Eclipse architecture team. He has been a committer on the Eclipse project since it began, working as a senior developer on JFace, the generic workbench and the Java development tooling. His interests are in the areas of user interfaces, source code transformation (refactoring in particular), development environments
and object oriented software architectures. Before joining IBM OTI Labs Dirk was working on SNiFF+ an award winning development environment for C/C++ and other programming languages.

Related Links

Eclipse RCP

Slides

EclipseRCP presentation