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13 :     <h1>Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI</h1>
14 :     <p>The rich client platform (RCP) is a major theme for Eclipse 3.0. This is the
15 :     main plan item:</p>
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17 :     <p><b>Enable Eclipse to be used as a rich client platform.</b> Eclipse was
18 :     designed as a universal tool integration platform. However, many facets and
19 :     components of Eclipse are not particularly specific to IDEs and would make
20 :     equal sense in non-IDE applications (e.g., window-based GUI, plug-ins, help
21 :     system, update manager). The Eclipse Platform should factor out and segregate
22 :     IDE-specific facilities (e.g., everything having to do with workspace
23 :     resources) so that a subset of it can be used as a rich client platform for
24 :     building applications. [Platform Core, Platform UI, Platform Update] [Theme:
25 :     Rich client platform] (<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36967">36967</a>)</p>
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27 :     <p>Additional plan items cover other important issues such as adding and
28 : jeem 1.2 removing plug-ins dynamically.</p>
29 :     <p>Note: The following documents are under active development and are being
30 :     updated by the Eclipse team on an ongoing basis to reflect the latest thinking.
31 :     The goal is to carve a UI for the rich client platform out of the Eclipse
32 :     Platform UI. By the nature of this kind of work, it's difficult to plan
33 :     everything in advance of actually doing the work; so we're not even going to
34 : jeem 1.6 try. Instead, we are revising these documents as we incrementally make our way
35 :     towards a satisfactory solution:</p>
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37 : jeem 1.6 <li><a href="generic_workbench_summary.html">Executive Summary of the Eclipse
38 :     Rich Client Platform UI</a> (includes excerpts from the documents below)</li>
39 : nick 1.5 </ul>
40 : jeem 1.9 These changes are covered in the <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/porting/eclipse_3_0_porting_guide.html">Eclipse
41 :     3.0 Porting Guide</a>. The original porting for the generic workbench is <a href="generic_workbench_porting_guide.html">here</a>.
42 :     <p>Articles:
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44 : jeem 1.10 <li><a href="rcp_tutorial/tutorial1.html">Rich Client Platform Tutorial - Part 1</a></li>
45 :     <li><a href="rcp_tutorial/tutorial2.html">Rich Client Platform Tutorial - Part 2</a></li>
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47 :     <p>Design documents:</p>
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49 : jeem 1.2 <li><a href="generic_workbench_direction.html">Statement of Direction for the
50 :     Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI</a></li>
51 : jeem 1.4 <li><a href="generic_workbench_approach.html">Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI
52 :     - Proposed Approach</a></li>
53 : jeem 1.2 <li><a href="generic_workbench_overview.html">Overview of the Generic
54 : jeem 1.6 Workbench</a></li>
55 : jeem 1.2 <li><a href="generic_workbench_structure.html">Generic Workbench Plug-in
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58 : nick 1.11 <p>Examples:</p>
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60 :     <li>RCP Browser Example in project
61 :     <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser">
62 :     org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser</a> in the Eclipse repository.
63 :     <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser/readme.html">
64 :     Click here for the readme file.</a></li>
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