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[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: SWT newbie question
That may be different then. Get your list of things you want to remove together and identify where they're defined. I'd love to be wrong here.

Jesse Driver wrote: 
Steve,

Thanks for that advice. I want to clarify that the idea of removing these un-used decorations around the jBPM designer window is something that I am being encouraged to pursue by leaders on the jboss.org jBPM user forum.

Apparently the developers of JBoss jBPM have always intended to do this but as with other open source projects things do not get done unless someone volunteers to do it. The same developers that will release the jBPM designer on the new version of eclipse will still be interested in this task being done.

If this is a suicide mission, then I will provide that feedback to the jBPM core team and maybe they will propose another approach to solve the requirement that this effort might have addressed.

My assumption was that it seems like there is alot of activity in people making tools based upon eclipse, so I would not need to redevelop the jBPM designer in another tech stack like JSF or Swing, but rather customize the current eclipse based tool. That way, when the jBPM or eclipse platform changed with new releases, a similar customization to the tool could be applied again.

Another proposal would be to redevelop the jPDL designer in a Swing or java applet, but I wanted to explore the idea of modifying the existing eclipse plug-in since this is currently the only open source implementation of a jBPM designer. The jBPM user forum contributors seem to believe that this is a feasible path, and although I have much java and UI experience, have never done any osgi or SWT projects up until now.

If you have found a tutorial or article or book that can help me understand the technical challenges at a more detailed level I would greatly appreciate it.

  Thanks. - Jesse