[news.eclipse.commercial] Re: Deliver RCP product or Plugins???

[Charle Kelly <Eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sakae,

If you can assume that your users are already using Eclipse,

and you can also assume that your users know how to install plugins into 
Eclipse,

then you can consider delivering your product as one or more plugins.

I think that these are strong assumptions.  If these assumptions are not 
valid, then you should consider delivering your product as in RCP 
format.  Also, if you deliver in RCP format, you should consider 
including a JRE with your distribution.

Hope this helps.

Charlie Kelly


Michael Spector wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:49 +0100, Sakae Nakajima wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a couple of questions to those who have experience in delivering 
> > commercial products.
> >
> > 1. How do you delive your product, as a RCP application or plugins?
> > 2. Why do you choose the option in the previous question?
>
>
> It can be both: RCP as well as plug-ins. For example: RCP is used as
> standalone application (you don't want to see anything which is not
> related to your application in the workbench), and plugins where 
> you application is playing the role of added value to other (bigger)
> product.