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<title>Rich Client Platform Facilities</title> |
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<h1>Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI</h1> |
<h1>Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI</h1> |
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<p>The rich client platform (RCP) is a major theme for Eclipse 3.0. This is the |
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main plan item:</p> |
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<p><b>Enable Eclipse to be used as a rich client platform.</b> Eclipse was |
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designed as a universal tool integration platform. However, many facets and |
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components of Eclipse are not particularly specific to IDEs and would make |
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equal sense in non-IDE applications (e.g., window-based GUI, plug-ins, help |
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system, update manager). The Eclipse Platform should factor out and segregate |
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IDE-specific facilities (e.g., everything having to do with workspace |
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resources) so that a subset of it can be used as a rich client platform for |
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building applications. [Platform Core, Platform UI, Platform Update] [Theme: |
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Rich client platform] (<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36967">36967</a>)</p> |
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<p>Additional plan items cover other important issues such as adding and |
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removing plug-ins dynamically.</p> |
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<p>Note: The following documents are under active development and are being |
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updated by the Eclipse team on an ongoing basis to reflect the latest thinking. |
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The goal is to carve a UI for the rich client platform out of the Eclipse |
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Platform UI. By the nature of this kind of work, it's difficult to plan |
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everything in advance of actually doing the work; so we're not even going to |
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try. Instead, we are revising these documents as we incrementally make our way |
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towards a satisfactory solution:</p> |
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<li><a href="generic_workbench_summary.html">Executive Summary of the Eclipse |
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Rich Client Platform UI</a> (includes excerpts from the documents below)</li> |
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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 |
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3.0 Porting Guide</a>. The original porting for the generic workbench is <a href="generic_workbench_porting_guide.html">here</a>. |
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<h4>FAQs</h4> |
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<li><a href="faq.html">Rich Client Platform FAQ</a></li> |
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<h4>Articles</h4> |
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<li><a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7echeckout%7e/org.eclipse.ui.tutorials.rcp.part1/html/tutorial1.html">Rich Client Platform Tutorial - Part 1</a></li> |
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<li><a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7echeckout%7e/org.eclipse.ui.tutorials.rcp.part2/html/tutorial2.html">Rich Client Platform Tutorial - Part 2</a></li> |
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<li><a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7echeckout%7e/org.eclipse.ui.tutorials.rcp.part3/html/tutorial3.html">Rich Client Platform Tutorial - Part 3</a></li> |
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<h4>Design documents</h4> |
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<li><a href="generic_workbench_direction.html">Statement of Direction for the |
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Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI</a></li> |
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<li><a href="generic_workbench_approach.html">Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI |
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- Proposed Approach</a></li> |
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<li><a href="generic_workbench_overview.html">Overview of the Generic |
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Workbench</a></li> |
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<li><a href="generic_workbench_structure.html">Generic Workbench Plug-in |
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Structure</a></li> |
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<h4>Browser Example</h4> |
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The RCP Browser Example is an example of a simple RCP app. |
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To load the browser example source into your workspace, load project <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser">org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser</a> from the Eclipse CVS repository. |
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Click <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/cvshowto.html">here</a> for instructions on using CVS with Eclipse. |
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For instructions on running the example, see the |
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<a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser/readme.html">readme file</a>. |
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To run the example in binary form (last updated June 11, 2004 for the 3.0 RC2 build): |
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<li>Download the RCP Runtime build from the <a href="http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php">Downloads</a> page, and extract it to a folder such as <em>c:\browser-example</em>. |
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<li>Download the <a href="org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser_3.0.0.zip">browser plugin zip</a> and extract it to the eclipse/plugins subfolder. |
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<li>Replace the eclipse/configuration/config.ini file with the appropriate config file from the browser plugin. For example, on Windows, |
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copy eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser_3.0.0/config_win32.ini to eclipse/configuration/config.ini . |
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<li>Run: <code>eclipse.exe</code>. |
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<h4>Text Editor Example</h4> |
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The RCP Text Editor Example is an example of a simple RCP app that makes use of the text editing infrastructure (an optional RCP component). |
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Click <a href="examples/texteditor/rcp_texteditor_ex.html">here</a> for the documentation for the example. |
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To load the text editor example source into your workspace: |
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<li> Click <a href="examples/texteditor/org.eclipse.ui.workbench.rcp.texteditor.zip">here</a> to download a zip file containing the source |
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for the example. |
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<li>Extract the zip to your Eclipse SDK workspace directory (your host workspace). |
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<li>Choose File > Import > Existing Project Into Workspace. |
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<li>Use the Browse button to select the <b>org.eclipse.ui.workbench.rcp.texteditor</b> directory extracted above. |
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<li>Press Finish. |
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To run the example: |
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<li>Choose Run > Debug... |
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<li>Under Run-time Workbench, there should be two new configurations: RCP Text Editor (gtk) and RCP Text Editor (win32). |
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<li>Edit the appropriate one as follows: |
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<li>on the Arguments tab, change the workspace location to some directory with write access (different than your host workspace, and different than the workspace used for other launch configs); |
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<li>in the Program to Run group, ensure that the application <b>org.eclipse.ui.workbench.rcp.texteditor.application</b> is selected; |
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<li>on the Plug-ins tab, press Deselect All, check org.eclipse.ui.workbench.rcp.texteditor, press Add Required Plug-ins, and also check org.eclipse.update.configurator. |
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<li>Press Debug. |
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<li>When the RCP Text Editor Example window opens, use File > Open to open a plain text, .xml, or .html file. |
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