[news.eclipse.technology.nebula] Re: Nebula Grid in RCP application

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mustufa Kasidwala schrieb:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Thanks for this explanation.
> 
> In my target platform, i refer to the same eclipse platform using which i 
> develop. Isn't this proper? should there be two copies of eclipse to develop 
> RCP application?

This works and if you don't want to setup you simply have to put the
nebula-grid.jar into your plugins-Directory and reload the target!

> 
> Is this a best practice to develop RCP applications or a requirement?
> 

Yes it is best practice to create an extra target platfrom by because
then your development environment and target can be different e.g.
developing with Eclipse 3.4 against a Eclipse 3.5 (or the other way
round) is quite common.

Often your target also has things into it which Eclipse doesn't need to
provide you the IDE (e.g. JDBC-Drivers, ....). If you reuse your
workbench as the target you always have to reinstall all this stuff from
scratch when you e.g. Upgrade from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1, .... .

Tom