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Profiling Eclipse RCP applications with Eclipse TPTP
I believe approx. one or two years ago I tried to profile an Eclipse RCP application with the Eclipse TPTP project. I believe at this point in time profiling an RCP application with TPTP was not...
View ArticlePoll – Default launch configuration for Eclipse plugin / RCP development
Eclipse shows errors during a launch via the log views in both the host and the target system and on the file system. In addition the developer can specify the flag “-consoleLog” in the launch...
View ArticleDefining menu entries (commands) at runtime in Eclipse RCP
A common question I receive is how menu entries can be defined at runtime in an RCP application. The following gives an example how this can be done. Create the RCP project...
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Re-using the Eclipse proxy preference settings in your Eclipse RCP application
The following demonstrates how to re-use the Eclipse proxy preferences in an Eclipse RCP application. Create a project “de.vogella.rcp.net.proxy” and select the “RCP application with a view” as...
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Eclipse 3.6M4 – Tiny nice things
I personally believe that little things make a difference. Eclipse 3.6 is going to be great for new (and perhaps also for experienced) plugin and RCP developers. Especially I like in the Eclipse 3.6M4...
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Using Eclipse Templates to show off
Have you ever been in a software demo there the presenter was that fast with the editor that you were scared? He might have been using personal templates. Templates allow you to save a block of coding...
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Eclipse Development – In which plugin do I find this class?
A common question for Eclipse Plugin or Eclipse RCP developer is in which plugin a certain class is included. A very easy way for finding this information is the Open Type Dialog (Hotkey Ctrl + Shift...
View ArticleEclipse 4 Platform Services Tutorial / Overview available
I created and re-worked a summary of the most important Eclipse 4 Platform Services, e.g. ECommandHandler, EPartService, ESelectionService and the EModelService: Eclipse 4 Services Tutorial I hope this...
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Eclipse 4 Application Development – Paper book published
I’m happy to announce that the paper version of the Eclipse 4 Application Development book has been published. The Kindle version has also been updated. Whoever has already the “Early access version”...
View ArticleContext functions in Eclipse RCP
Context functions in Eclipse RCP are powerful tools. They allow you to register for certain keys in the context and create objects for these keys lazily. I created a separate tutorial for them. See...
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Inject your JPA EntityManager into an Eclipse RCP application – Guest post by...
Inject your JPA EntityManager The dependency injection in Eclipse 4 is really nice. However you cannot inject your EntityManager like in JavaEE6. Until now. The Gemini JPA project provides an OSGi...
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Eclipse 4 RCP Kindle version available
I finally found the time to publish the Eclipse 4 RCP book also as Kindle version. Amazon USA: Eclipse 4 Rich Client Platform Amazon Germany: Eclipse 4 Rich Client Platform The other Amazon countries...
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Eclipse Science
Every programmer knows that the Eclipse Rich Client Platform has been designed to build the popular Java IDE that can be enhanced for many more programming languages and is often used internally in...
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Generic Eclipse 3.x views, editors and handlers with DI – by René Brandstetter
In this blog entry I will show you three independent features provided by Eclipse and OSGi which can work together to create views, editors or handlers via the Eclipse ExtensionRegistry but still use...
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