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[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Widgets as in iGoogle or the MacOS X Dashboard?
On 2/18/2009 6:47 AM, Alessandro Adamou wrote: 
Hi all,

I am trying to develop an Eclipse plugin which will need some (I
believe) pretty sophisticated UI.

I would like to build a set of graphical objects, each being a small
container for some widgets like text fields, trees, drop-down menus,
etc. They should be organised and freely drag-&-dropped and moved around
like desktop windows. It should be something like iGoogle or the MacOS X
Dashboard, for those who are familiar with it, but it must run within a
Workbench View.

It's impossible to say for sure without knowing more details of the requirements, but I'd say you can use Views. Views can be dragged around and docked in very flexible ways within the Workbench, and can contain any kind of SWT or JFace controls.
In the Help, look under the Workbench User Guide. There are sections in Getting Started and Concepts that explain Views in detail.

Hope this helps,
Eric