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"At this point, the only source of useful overview documentation for the Common Navigator are the excellent tutorials at Michael Elder's (the author of the CN) blog. Soon I hope to get some of this transferred into the Eclipse Plugin Developer's Guide. RCP applications can quickly and easily use the CN to show the resources in the workspace. This assumes that your RCP application uses resources (which is another discussion). The CN can also be used for non-resource RCP applications, in that case, these instructions don't apply, as the objects treated by the CN have to be created directly by the RCP application. If you are planning to use the CN in an RCP application that uses resources, there are 3 (2 of which are completely undocumented) things you must do:"

This page contains links to applications built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). The listings here are intended to get you started in finding out more about products and projects that use the Eclipse RCP. You can also view a pdf presentation of RCP based applications. We have also prepared some case studies of organizations that are using Eclipse RCP. Hopefully it will provide you a better understanding of the benefits from using Eclipse RCP for your application platform. We'd like these pages to be useful to you - so please email us your pointers and comments!

This page contains links to applications built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). The listings here are intended to get you started in finding out more about products and projects that use the Eclipse RCP. You can also view a pdf presentation of RCP based applications. We have also prepared some case studies of organizations that are using Eclipse RCP. Hopefully it will provide you a better understanding of the benefits from using Eclipse RCP for your application platform. We'd like these pages to be useful to you - so please email us your pointers and comments!

Eclipse Rich Client Platform has come a looong way since it was first introduced (and used in Eclipse IDE). The new Eclipse RAP (Rich Application Platform) is also becoming more and more attractive for deploying existing or new Eclipse RCP applications to the web. One of my the projects I'm working on is developed on top of Eclipse RCP. It uses additional plugins such as EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) including EMF Editor UI, Teneo (EMF Persistence for Relational Databases), and Hibernate. After some work, I managed to run the whole application on both Eclipse RCP (desktop) and Eclipse RAP (web-based). See the screenshots for proof. Thanks to the recently released EMF Support for RAP I don't have to let go any of the nice EMF generated editor UIs for the web-based RAP version. What's amazing is how little the work I have to do to port the RCP app to RAP. The changes I needed to do is not changing code, but juggling dependencies to plugins and/or packages. Also creating a few platform-specific plugins (different based on whether I deploy on RCP or RAP).

"Background processes in Eclipse RCP and Eclipse Plugins This article describes how to use the Job API in Eclipse RCP and Eclipse plugins to perform asynchronous tasks. It also discuss how to update the UI thread. This article is based on Eclipse 3.6 (Helios). "

" 1 Riena/RCP Applications in the Web using RAP Christian Campo EclipseCon 2011 - March 22nd Confidential | Date | Other Information, if necessaryMärz 23, 2011 © 2002 IBM Corporation Copyright © 2011 compeople AG, Made available under the Eclipse Public License v 1.0 What is Riena again ? §  RCP based Framework §  Client / Server Applications §  Remote OSGi Service Support §  End-user focused Navigation Concept §  Promotes the separation of View and ViewControllerCopyright © 2011 compeople AG, Made available under the Eclipse Public License v 1.0 2 "

"Besides a rich user interaction many applications need to display a big amount of data sets as diagrams or reports as part of their applications. In order to bridge the gap the BIRT project was created as part of the eclipse ecosystem. BIRT is an open source Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates with your Java/J2EE application to produce compelling reports. That BIRT integrates well with classic RCP applications is a well known fact. But the need for rich internet applications is still growing. And here the RAP comes into play. As a platform for developing Web 2.0 applications with the same patterns as for RCP it paves the way for single sourcing applications running on both platforms. In this talk we will show how to integrate diagrams and reports known from BIRT into RAP applications. Topics covered include how to setup the environment to let BIRT and RAP play well together. In addition we will give advices how to use the reports inside RAP applications and which problems may arise. As a final outcome of we will know everything to bring reporting capabilities into RAP applications. "

"red-open is a sister project of redView. red-open is providing a Software Factory to transform models and generate code. red-open uses Eclipse Modeling (MWE, Xpand, Xtend to transform Domain Models (EMF, UML, XSD, Xtext) into other models like redView View Models. red-open also generates code and artifacts to generate RCP Prototyping apps, SWT Views, MockUp, Riena Navigation Assembly... "

"How much can the IDE predict what you will write in the next seconds? "Code Recommenders" is a blog about ongoing research projects developing so called Framework Understanding Tools (FrUiTs for short) - or more general recommender systems that help developers to deal with the complexity of today's software development. It has a strong focus on new Eclipse based tools and discusses/presents ideas how to overcome issues with current IDEs."

"Learn how to use EMF.Edit and Common Navigator Framework (CNF) to create a model navigation plug-in based on a tree viewer. Build an Eclipse plug-in that allows users to manipulate and navigate the content of an Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)-based model. This will involve step-by-step guidance of developing the plug-in, implementing the proper structures to extract the model content through the EMF edit framework, and displaying the content in a CNF-based view part."

WindowBuilder Pro (also known as just WindowBuilder) is a powerful and easy to use bi-directional Java GUI designer. It is composed of SWT Designer, Swing Designer and GWT Designer and makes it very easy to create Java GUI applications without spending a lot of time writing code to display simple forms. With WindowBuilder Pro you can create complicated windows in minutes. Use the visual designer and Java code will be generated for you. You can easily add controls using drag-and-drop, add event handlers to your controls, change various properties of controls using a property editor, internationalize your app and much more.

"This article looks at the new Jobs API available as part of Eclipse 3.0. It describes the main portions of the Jobs API and the use of scheduling rules. It also describes some changes to Eclipse resource management including how the Resources plug-in integrates with the new API. Finally, it describes some new UI functionality that has been added to provide feedback to users about jobs that are run in the background. "