Eclipse Community Forums: Newcomers » RCP vs Plug-ins question

Help

Home

Home » Newcomers » Newcomers » RCP vs Plug-ins question

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

RCP vs Plug-ins question [message #142960]

Tue, 14 March 2006 14:32

Barry Dresdner

Messages: 75
Registered: July 2009

Member

I have an AWT/Swing based GUI that I am about to rewrite using Eclipse
plug-ins. The current GUI has a WebDav Navigator view, a properties view,
a tabbed editor area, output console view, etc. My question is should I
develop this as an RCP using various plug-ins or just create a bunch of
plug-ins and allow users to drop them into an existing Eclipse
environment. Can anyone point me in the right direction - possibly to any
papers written on the subject? Thanks in advance.

Report message to a moderator

Re: RCP vs Plug-ins question [message #143042 is a reply to message #142960]

Tue, 14 March 2006 17:32

Chris Gage

Messages: 74
Registered: July 2009

Member

Barry,

The choice is yours. There is no right way. If your application is
self-contained, i.e. it stands on its own as an application in the same
way Word or Excel does, you can choose to package it as an RCP app. If
it might need some aspects of the IDE such as an editor, you could
include the editor as part of your RCP app, or package it as a plugin.
If you feel the IDE as a whole is a useful adjunct to your code, you
can just do it as plugin. If you decide on one, and change your mind,
you can switch to the other without throwing away more than a tiny
amount of scaffolding.

hth

Chris

Report message to a moderator

Re: RCP vs Plug-ins question [message #143051 is a reply to message #143042]

Tue, 14 March 2006 18:13

Barry Dresdner

Messages: 75
Registered: July 2009

Member

Thank you Chris for your response. It really helps me with my thinking.
I'm leaning toward developing an RCP since I'm thinking that exposing too
much of the standard Eclipse IDE will confuse (possibly overwhelm) my
users who mainly want to focus on the business logic of my application. I
hope this makes sense.
Barry

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	The "problems" tab not refreshing
Next Topic:	Worksets, Filters, and/or Folders for Run Configurations?

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Sat Apr 27 04:41:41 GMT 2024

.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Breadcrumbs

Sign up to our Newsletter