# Paperback: 552 pages
# Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; Pap/Cdr edition (October 21, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0321334612
# ISBN-13: 978-0321334619
# Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches

From the Back Cover

Build Powerful, Cross-Platform Rich Client Applications

Eclipse is more than a state-of-the-art IDE: its Rich Client Platform (RCP) plug-ins modify an unpaid groundwork for some screen application, from chitchat applications to send cipher front-ends. In Eclipse Rich Client Platform, digit body of the Eclipse RCP send exhibit just how to investment Eclipse for rapid, efficient, cross-platform screen development.

In constituent to explaining the noesis of Eclipse as a screen covering utilization platform, the authors achievement step-by-step ended nonindustrial a full featured, branded RCP application. They inform a panoramic arrange of techniques, including nonindustrial pluggable and dynamically extensible systems, using third-party cipher libraries, and packaging applications for different environments. You’ll build, refine, and refactor a rank prototype; make the individual interface; add Help and Update features; and build, brand, and board the ended software.

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For every Java developer, disregarding of preceding Eclipse experience
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Thoroughly covers Eclipse 3.1’s newborn RCP features and its comprehensive newborn tools for designing, coding, and packaging RCP applications
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Presents techniques for branding and customizing the countenance and see of RCP applications
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Shows how to overcome the challenges and “rough edges” of RCP development
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Discusses the similarities and differences between RCP and customary plug-in development
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Includes an overview of OSGi, the humble enforcement support for Eclipse

If you poverty to amend and deploy world-class Java applications with rich, autochthonous GUIs, and ingest Eclipse RCP—get this book.

CD-ROM contains the Eclipse 3.1 SDK, Eclipse 3.1 RCP SDK, and Eclipse 3.1 RCP Delta Pack pertinent for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It also contains every the cipher samples matured in the book.

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About the Author

Jeff McAffer leads the Eclipse RCP and Runtime teams and is digit of the Eclipse Platform’s example architects and committers. Prior to his impact at IBM’s Algonquin Software Lab, he was a developer at Object Technology International centering on areas much as distributed/parallel OO computing, proficient systems, and meta-level architectures. Jeff holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo.

Jean-Michel Lemieux has been a committer on the Eclipse aggroup and CVS factor since its inception. Before connexion IBM’s Algonquin Software Lab to impact on Eclipse, Jean-Michel shapely real-time SS7 monitoring systems and real-time moulding tools.

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Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applications (The Eclipse Series)

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