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Eclipse Rich Client PlatformDiscover the Anatomy of an Application Based On Eclipse

Wayne Beaton

Evangelist, Eclipse Foundation

Copyright © 2007 Eclipse Foundation, Inc., Made available under the Eclipse Public License v 1.0

Agenda

What is the Eclipse Rich Client Platform? Overview of the application Code walkthrough

Application

Models

Views

Summary

What is the Eclipse Rich Client Platform?


What is a Rich Client?

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Composition of Components

EquinoxEquinox

SWTSWTJFaceJFace

UIUIUpdateUpdate

RuntimeRuntime

IDE UIIDE UI

LTKLTK

SearchSearch

DebugDebug

HelpHelp

TeamTeam

AntAnt

JDTJDT

PDEPDE

Eclipse SDK/Java IDE


Generic IDE Components

EquinoxEquinox

SWTSWTJFaceJFace

UIUIUpdateUpdate

RuntimeRuntime

IDE UIIDE UI

LTKLTK

SearchSearch

DebugDebug

HelpHelp

TeamTeam

AntAnt

JDTJDT

PDEPDE


Eclipse Rich Client Platform

EquinoxEquinox

SWTSWTJFaceJFace

UIUIUpdateUpdate

RuntimeRuntime

IDE UIIDE UI

LTKLTK

SearchSearch

DebugDebug

HelpHelp

TeamTeam

AntAnt

JDTJDT

PDEPDE

Overview of the Application


Eclipse Organizer

E-Mail, Task List, Calendar Composition of components Custom branding Extensible

Back ends

Features

Drop handlers

…

http://www.eclipse.org/evangelism/samples/organizer/install.php

WARNING:The sample

application is under

development!


Organizer as an Eclipse RCP Application

Let’s have a look!


Organizer as Eclipse Plug-ins


Projects


Components

EquinoxEquinox

SWTSWTJFaceJFace

UIUIUpdateUpdate

RuntimeRuntimeOrganizer CoreOrganizer Core

Organizer UIOrganizer UI

Custom WidgetsCustom Widgets

Outlook DNDOutlook DND

Text DNDText DNDDerby BackendDerby Backend

Organizer ApplicationOrganizer Application

HelpHelp


Dependency Graph

ui.modelui.model

applicationapplication

corecore

derbyderby

ui.switcherui.switcher

ui.taskui.task

ui.utilui.util

ui.mailui.mail dnd.outlookdnd.outlook


Platform

Eclipse RCPEclipse RCP

Organizer PlatformOrganizer Platform

EquinoxEquinox SWTSWTJFaceJFace

UIUIUpdateUpdate RuntimeRuntime

Organizer CoreOrganizer Core Organizer UIOrganizer UI Custom WidgetsCustom Widgets

Organizer ApplicationOrganizer Application

Outlook DNDOutlook DND

Text DNDText DND

Derby BackendDerby Backend

Workspace Backend

Workspace Backend

Thunderbird DNDThunderbird DNDWeb Services

BackendWeb Services

BackendTasks FeatureTasks Feature

Mail FeatureMail FeatureCalendar FeatureCalendar Feature

HelpHelp


Models Component

Object Model Pluggable support for multiple back ends Currently hard coded support for tasks

Ripe for implementation as OSGi Services (pending)

Change notification using observer pattern


WARNING:The object model

needs some work!


UI Model

ui.modelui.model applicationapplication

ui.switcherui.switcher

ui.taskui.task

ui.mailui.mailui.calendarui.calendar

contribution

contributioncontribution

Event:Show view

Action:Set activefeature

Event: Change appearance



Switcher UI Component

Sets the active feature Listens for changes in the view model



Task UI Component

TasksView Dynamic Table

Extensible Drag and Drop

ImportTasksWizard TaskEditor



Application Component

Binds the parts together Provides branding, initial window layout,

menus, tool bars, …



UI Utils Component

“Super” TableViewer Date Picker



Custom Presentation

Tunes the appearance of workbench Very plain: no decoration around view stacks



Summary

Application plug-in

Model plug-in

View plug-in

Custom extension points Back ends and Back end Factories

Drop handlers

More information about the various technologies, see: http://www.eclipse.org/articles

http://www.eclipse.org/resources


The Future

This application is still under development Save and restore state of all views Revamp the object model with OSGi Services Key bindings Package for update sites Support for dragging from MacMail, Thunderbird, etc. Web Services based backend Improve ICU4J support More complete help contents Custom ICO for launcher Dig into Outlook to get dragged task details?


Recommended Reading

Eclipse Rich Client Platform By Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux

Addison-Wesley Professional

ISBN: 0321334612

Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs by John Arthorne, Chris Laffra


ISBN: 0321268385

Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins

By Erich Gamma, Kent Beck


ISBN: 0321205758

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