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

["Mustufa Kasidwala" <m.kasid@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Tom,

Really useful information.

And yes, i copied nebula grid jar to my plugins directory and it worked. The 
wrapping was not needed.

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Thanks,

Mustufa
"Tom Schindl" <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> 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