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The goal of the Eclipse Scout project is making it easy to build distributed enterprise applications based on the Eclipse platform. It consists of a runtime framework providing transparent service communication between the client and backend part and is shipped with a rich set of common user interface components. The user interface is not built for a particular rendering technology but it encapsulates the core functionality into a headless model. GUI factories are available for rendering the client model into a particular target UI platform. SWT and Swing are supported out of the box and an AJAX GUI factory could be easily added. Developing Scout applications is supported by the Scout SDK, a plug-in set built on top of Eclipse PDE and Eclipse JDT. The Scout SDK works directly on the bare Java resources and assists the development task by providing an augmented view on the underlying Java code. Additionally, it comes with a rich set of wizards and operations for modifying the Scout application project just by editing the underlying Java code. There is no meta-data required. Hence a developer can switch between editing resources using Eclipse's standard editors and leveraging the features of Scout SDK at any point in time. Eclipse Scout can be used to create multi-tier client/server applications, standalone client applications or OSGi-based server applications. Basically, there are three main advantages when choosing Scout as your framework for building such applications. First, the Scout runtime is service oriented by design. Almost every functionality is provided as an OSGi service. Every OSGi bundle may make use of them. Second, Scout provides a rich set of UI elements being uncoupled from a particular GUI technology. And third, building distributed client/server applications is as easy as if both parts would run within the same local JVM.

The objective of Eclipse Scout is to substantially reduce the development time needed for SOA and Java-conforming business software. Scout includes: an application model, a reference implementation, proven development functions and a comprehensive tool: the Scout SDK.

  Eclipse Scout: "Hello World" App mzi | 23. March 2011 um 08.40 Uhr | Kategorien: General | Keine Kommentare | Install Scout: See the recent blog post Create Scout App: See new "Hello World" wiki tutorial Deploy to Tomcat: Wiki tutorial again Having Eclipse Scout and Tomcat installed all this should take you less than 15 minutes. If you happen to be at the Eclipse Con right now you may skip the download part, visit our boot #12 or attend our tutorial and get our Scouty memory stick with everything on it

In this article, we are going to look at how the Activiti BPM engine can be used together with Vaadin. We are going to do this in the form of a case study of a demo application that is available on GitHub. The code is licensed under Apache License 2.0 and can freely be used as a foundation for your own applications. Before continuing, you might want to check out this screencast of the demo application in action (HD quality is recommended):