1. Introduction 1 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

2.  Who am I?  Eclipse as a platform  What is Eclipse RCP?  Extension Points / Extensions  Equinox  SWT & JFace  View coupeling  Summary 2 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

3.  Lars Vogel ◦ Working for SAP AG as a product manager responsible for SAP Transportation Management ◦ Open source enthusiastic ◦ Active in the Java and Eclipse ecosystem 3

4.  Eclipse RCP distribution, via www.eclipse.org/downlods www.eclipse.org/downlods  Or installation of feature „Eclipse RCP“ via the Eclipse update manager 4 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

5.  Platform ◦ Small runtime ◦ Complex applications can be extensible without the need to adjust existing code 5 Runtime Platform Application Extensible Application Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

6.  Nov. 2001 – Code released as open Source  Juni 2004 – Eclipse 3.0 based on OSGi and enables Eclipse RCP  Current Eclipse 3.4.2 (aka Ganymede) 6 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

7.  Local running application using the native widget toolkit  Based on the Eclipse runtime and technology  Eclipse RCP applications can be standalone or may require server communication 7 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

8.  Component model  Rich user experience  Platform (OS) independent  Extensible  Re-use of existing Eclipse functionality  Helps avoiding writing boilerplate code, e.g. automatic update  Excellent community 8 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

9. 9 Application ApplicationWorkbenchAdvisor ApplicationWorkbenchWindowAdvisor ApplicationActionBarAdvisor Calls PlattfromUI.createAndRunWorkbench Defines the initial perspective Settings for the window, e.g. toolbar visible, etc Defines initial Actions (outdated) Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

10.  MANIFEST.MF – Defines OSGi bundle  plugin.xml – Defines Eclipse extensions and extension points  build.properties – property file for export  PDE (Plug-in Development Environement) provides editors for these files. 10 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

11.  Extension Points allow to add functionality to pre- defined points  Each plug-in can define it‘s own extension points allowing other to contribute  Each plug-in can define extensions, providing functionality to pre-defined extension points  RCP developer use primary the existing platfrom extension points to define their application 11 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

12.  plugin.xml contains description of all extensions and extension points  Contributions are only loaded when they are needed -> lazy loading to save memory and keep startup time small 12 *Graphic Source: Internet Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

13.  A command in Eclipse is a declarative description of a component and is independent from the implementation details.  A command can be categorized  Key binding can be assigned to the command. 13 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

14. 14 Runtime / Equinox SWT JFace Workbench … … … … Other Plug-ins… Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

15.  Reference implementation of OSGi  Dynamic module system  Wildly used, e.g. in application servers  Allows to ◦ Define dependencies between Plug-ins ◦ Hide plug-in internal implementation details  Eclipse plug-in is always an OSGi bundle and vice versa 15 Equinox Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

16.  View available for plug-in dependency analysis  Graphical tool can be found on http://www.eclipse.org/pde/incubator/dependency- visualization/ http://www.eclipse.org/pde/incubator/dependency- visualization/ 16 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

17.  Plug-in(s) for the domain model  Plug-in(s) for the core functionality  Plug-in(s) for the UI functionality  Modularity allows you to grow as you go 17 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

18.  SWT Standard Widget Toolkit ◦ Thin layer upon the native GUI libraries ◦ JNI calls ◦ Not a lot of conviniant functionality 18 *Screenshot from the Internet

19.  JFace ◦ UI toolkit that provides helper classes for developing UI features ◦ Tables / TreeViewer / Dialogs / ◦ Can be based on models ◦ Databinding  Workbench ◦ multi-window environment ◦ manages views, editors, perspectives 19 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

20.  Viewer: Table / Treeviewer: Responsible for the UI  LabelProvider: How is the domain model represented  ModelProvider: Delivery the domain model  ViewerSorter: Sorts values in the viewer  ViewerFilter: Filters values ◦ 20 Viewer – UI, shows data Viewer – UI, shows data ContentProvider – „Dao“ for viewer ContentProvider – „Dao“ for viewer LabelProvider – Which data is represented how LabelProvider – Which data is represented how Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

21.  View / Viewer can be selection provider, e.g. getSite().setSelectionProvider(viewer);  Another view can register without knowing which view are responible for the changes ◦ Needs to implement ISelectionListener ◦ Must itself register as SelectionListener, via getSite().getWorkbenchWindow().getSelectionService().addSel ectionListener(this)  Allows Loose Coupeling 21 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

22.  Contains the branding, e.g. splashscreen, icons, „About“ dialog  Configuration for different operating systems  Used for exporting the final application 22 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

23.  Find in Eclipse which parts you are looking at  Make coding analysis and re-use extremly easy  Shortcut Alt+Shift+F1  Add org.eclipse.pde.runtime and org.eclipse.ui.forms as dependency to have Plug-in Spy in your own RCP application 23 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

24.  Eclipse RCP is a powerful framework to develop native looking, modular, extensible applications.  „Billions“;-) of new API‘s to learn…. Very powerful but complex framework 24 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

25.  The whole world of Eclipse projects is available for RCP ◦ Modelling (EMF) ◦ Reporting (BIRT) ◦ Graphical Editors (GEF, GMF, Zest) ◦ Automatic Updates (p2 Update) ◦ Presentation Framework ◦ PDE Build / PDE JUnit ◦ Internationalization  Eclipse RCP in the Web -> Eclipse RAP  Eclipse RCP on the mobile device -> eRCP  Eclipse E4 ◦ Styling of UI components via CSS ◦ XWT -> allows declarative UI definition 25 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009

26.  Introduction to Eclipse RCP ◦ http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html  Eclipse RCP podcast ◦ http://www.eclipsezone.com/files/podcasts/9-RCP- Jeff.McAffer.mp3?source=podcasts  Book: Eclipse Rich Client Platform ◦ By Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux ◦ Addison-Wesley Professional ◦ Attention: Second Edition planned for June 2009 26 Lars Vogel 4/22/2009