© 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 | March 17, 2008 Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP Shawn Spiars Lead UI Developer Phurnace Software

Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP | © 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 Agenda  What is Phurnace Deliver?  Why choose the Eclipse Rich Client Platform?  Reusable Plug-ins we leveraged to rapidly develop our RCP application

© 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 | March 17, 2008 Phurnace Deliver Helps troubleshoot application server configuration problems quickly. Compares application server configurations on multiple servers. Creates predictable and repeatable J2EE application deployments without scripts. Previews the impact of configuration changes prior to deployment. Migrates between application servers and versions.

© 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 | March 17, 2008 Why choose the Eclipse Rich Client Platform?  Allows you to quickly build a professional-looking rich client application (We created our initial rich client for our command line tool (CLI) within six weeks)  Native look-and-feel on multiple platforms  Pluggable architecture – components can be swapped out as needed  So many great plug-ins to leverage

Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP | © 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 Welcome  Browser-based  Creates initial user experience  Guide to discovering a product’s functionality

Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP | © 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 Online Help System  Browser-based framework to add documentation to the platform  Table of contents  HTML content  Runs locally or over network  Search engine

Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP | © 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 UI Forms – flat, clean, web-style controls

Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP | © 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 Common Navigator Framework (CNF)  Navigational tree viewer  Workspace resources  Non-workspace models  Integrate models into a navigator experience

Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP | © 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 Web Tools Platform (WTP) - XML Editor  Design View – XML file is represented as a table and a tree  Source View – enables you to view and work directly with the source code  Code assist  Syntax highlighting  DTD or XML Schema Validation

Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP | © 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 Compare Viewer  Quickly view differences between app server configurations  Copy changes from left to right, or right to left

Case Study – Phurnace Software and RCP | © 2008 by Shawn Spiars; made available under the EPL v1.0 Additional Plug-ins  Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) – generic workbench for managing views, editors, preferences, actions, wizards, etc…  Ant – launch separate VM for command line tool (CLI)  Update Manager – discover and install application updates  Team API – integrate with Subversion repository

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