• Table of contents
• Eclipse RCP Resources
  • • Tutorials
    • Code Examples
    • Eclipse Quirks
    • Research
      • Data Binding
      • Model-View-Controller (general)
      • Undoable operations
      • Field assist

Eclipse RCP Resources¶

Platform Plug-in Developer Guide

http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp

Platform News Groups

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.platform

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.platform.swt

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.platform.rcp

Tutorials¶

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/

Commands overview:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework

Good introduction to the basic structure of an RCP project:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.html

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial2.html

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial3.html

SWT layout tutorial:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Understanding-Layouts/Understanding-Layouts.htm

Tabbed properties tutorial:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Tabbed-Properties/tabbed_properties_view.html

Text editor:

http://www.realsolve.co.uk/site/tech/jface-text.php

http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.swt/msg19676.html

Content assist:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_add_Content_Assist_to_my_language_editor%3F

StyledText:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/StyledText%201/article1.html

Extensively formatted tree viewer tool tips:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-forms/

Pre-fabricated properties view:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Properties-View/properties-view.html

Using decorators to lay over an element's image, i.e. for warnings:

http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench_advext_decorators.htm

RCP and Maven:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Eclipse-and-Maven2/index.html

Code Examples¶

http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/SWT-JFace-Eclipse/CatalogSWT-JFace-Eclipse.htm

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JFaceSnippets

http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets

Eclipse Quirks¶

VERY STRANGE "OPEN EDITOR ACTION" BUG: when opening an editor w/ the command openEditor in the run() method of an org.eclipse.jface.action.Action subclass, the editor MUST have an icon defined in its plugin.xml Extension details. Otherwise, you'll get the following error: Unable to open editor, unknown editor ID: eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.designproposal1.view.mpetestview.

Research¶

Data Binding¶

Several data binding frameworks exist for Java. IBM Developer Works gives a good overview.

We focus on JFace, cause there is ready Eclipse support available:

• [JFace Data Binding](http://wiki.eclipse.org/JFace_Data_Binding. Seems to require bound properties) in the domain model objects through the Java Bean PropertyChangeSupport .

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JFace_Data_Binding_Scenarios

• JFace Code snippets

• SWT Designer data binding support #DataBinding -> demo

• IBM Developer Works Tutorials: Understanding JFace data binding in Eclipse

  • Part 1: The pros and cons of data binding ?S_TACT=105AGX44&S_CMP=EDU
  • Part 2: The basics of binding ?S_TACT=105AGX44&S_CMP=EDU -> See attachment:IBM_DevWorks-jfacedb2.pdf for direct download
  • Part 3: Exploiting advanced features ?S_TACT=105AGX44&S_CMP=EDU -> See attachment:IBM_DevWorks-jfacedb3.pdf for direct download

Model-View-Controller (general)¶

The following two articles describe an example of an MVC GUI written in Swing, but it nonetheless gets down to the nitty gritty of how MVC theory gets translated into code.

http://www.javadude.com/articles/vaddmvc2/mvc1.html

http://www.javadude.com/articles/vaddmvc2/mvc2.html

This is a good article, again for Swing, which runs EVERYTHING - i.e., in both directions - through the controller.

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/mvc/

I liked this one, his commenters didn't.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/07/07/genericmvc.html

Only touches on MVC, but lots of good ideas for efficiently building a JFace tree.

http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t53983.html?start=0

Undoable operations¶

Help entry

Field assist¶

A potential alternative to the SWT.!StyledText widget's decoration and autocomplete is JFace field assist