Eclipse 4.x – RCP 2.0

Anders Forsell, Fredrik Attebrant – FindOut Technologies

Eclipse RCP history

2001

1.0

2003

2.1 3.0

2004

”RCP 1.0”

2008

3.4

e4

2011

3.7

4.1

2012

”RCP 2.0”

4.2

3.8

OSGi services

3.6

4.0

2010

0.9

2009

First ideas to use Eclipse asgeneral application platform

2005

”tech. preview”

Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform

JRE

Eclipse 4 Application Platform

OSGi (Equinox)

EMF

Fram

ew

ork

EA

P-SW

T

SWT-UI

Workbench Model

DI-Container

Services

App

Core-Business-Logic

(c) Tom Schindl - BestSolution Systemhaus GmbH

Demo

• Eclipse 3.x RCP in 4.x

• Live Application Model Editor

• CSS styling

• e4 parts

Birthday cake!

License and acknowledgements

• This presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

• Special thanks to Tom Schindl for providing the slide on the EAP