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<h1>Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI</h1>
<p>The rich client platform (RCP) is a major theme for Eclipse 3.0. This is the
main plan item:</p>
<blockquote>
  <p><b>Enable Eclipse to be used as a rich client platform.</b> Eclipse was
  designed as a universal tool integration platform. However, many facets and
  components of Eclipse are not particularly specific to IDEs and would make
  equal sense in non-IDE applications (e.g., window-based GUI, plug-ins, help
  system, update manager). The Eclipse Platform should factor out and segregate
  IDE-specific facilities (e.g., everything having to do with workspace
  resources) so that a subset of it can be used as a rich client platform for
  building applications. [Platform Core, Platform UI, Platform Update] [Theme:
  Rich client platform] (<a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36967">36967</a>)</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Additional plan items cover other important issues such as adding and
removing plug-ins dynamically.</p>
<p>Note: The following documents are under active development and are being
updated by the Eclipse team on an ongoing basis to reflect the latest thinking.
The goal is to carve a UI for the rich client platform out of the Eclipse
Platform UI. By the nature of this kind of work, it's difficult to plan
everything in advance of actually doing the work; so we're not even going to
try. Instead, we are revising these documents as we incrementally make our way
towards a satisfactory solution:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="generic_workbench_summary.html">Executive Summary of the Eclipse
    Rich Client Platform UI</a> (includes excerpts from the documents below)</li>
</ul>
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
3.0 Porting Guide</a>. The original porting for the generic workbench is <a href="generic_workbench_porting_guide.html">here</a>.
<p>Articles:
<ul>
  <li><a href="rcp_tutorial/tutorial1.html">Rich Client Platform Tutorial - Part 1</a></li>
  <li><a href="rcp_tutorial/tutorial2.html">Rich Client Platform Tutorial - Part 2</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Design documents:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="generic_workbench_direction.html">Statement of Direction for the
    Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI</a></li>
  <li><a href="generic_workbench_approach.html">Eclipse Rich Client Platform UI
    - Proposed Approach</a></li>
  <li><a href="generic_workbench_overview.html">Overview of the Generic
    Workbench</a></li>
  <li><a href="generic_workbench_structure.html">Generic Workbench Plug-in
    Structure</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Examples:</p>
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  <li>RCP Browser Example in 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> in the Eclipse repository.
    <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.browser/readme.html">
    Click here for the readme file.</a></li>
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