Chapter 13. Looking beyond SWT/JFace: the Rich Client Platform
This chapter covers
- The theory behind the Rich Client Platform (RCP)
- The classes that make RCP operation possible
- The Eclipse Forms toolset
- Building an example RCP application
So far, we’ve discussed how SWT serves as a general-purpose toolset for building GUI applications. We’ve also shown how JFace provides more specialized capabilities (Actions, Contributions, and Viewers) like those in the Eclipse platform. These aspects of JFace simplify the development process, as long as your GUI’s operation resembles that of the Eclipse Workbench.
To conclude this book, we’d like to take this progression one step further. Instead of just using behavioral aspects of the Workbench, ...
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