[news.eclipse.platform] Re: My RCP application start up changed from 3.2

[Snjezana Peco <snjeza.peco@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can try to add your initialization code to the 
WorkbenchWindowAdvisor.postWindowOpen() method.
You can also try to use the Eclipse Job API 
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Concurrency/jobs-api.html

Snjeza

Ian Leslie wrote:
> I have an RCP application which takes about 60 seconds to start up.  A 
> portion of that is database initialization that does not need to be done 
> before the GUI comes up.  Using 3.2 I had my startup time (for the GUI 
> to appear) down to 45s with the additional work happening on a separate 
> thread and completing 20s or so after that.
>
> I have updated my application to use 3.3 (I wanted some of the SWT 
> enhancements) and now I see that the GUI does not appear until after my 
> initialization thread is finished.  I did change from IPlatformRunnable 
> to IApplication for my app but that did not help.
>
> The second thread is launched from the start method of one of my 
> application's plug-ins with code like this:
>
>        new Thread (new Runnable () {
>
>            public void run () {
>                try {
>                    //  Delay the start so the rest of the application 
> can get a head start
>                    Thread.sleep (200);
>                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
>
>                try {
>                    ... do a bunch of work here...
>                }  catch (CoreException e)  {
>                    DataAccessPlugin.getInstance ().getLog ().log 
> (ErrorFactory.createStatusObject (
>                            DataAccessPlugin.getID (), e, 
>                            
> DataAccessErrorCodes.WARNING_PRELOADING_FAILED));
>                }  finally  {
>                    if (connection != null)  {
>                        try {
>                            connection.close ();
>                        } catch (SQLException e) {
>                            DataAccessPlugin.getInstance ().getLog ().log 
> (ErrorFactory.createStatusObject (
>                                    DataAccessPlugin.getID (), e, 
>                                    
> DataAccessErrorCodes.WARNING_PRELOADING_FAILED));
>                        }
>                    }
>                }
>            }
>        }).start ();
>
>
>
> What has changed?  What can I do to start a thread that will not prevent 
> the GUI from coming up?
>
> Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.
>
> Ian