Eclipse RCP4 training

ECLIPSE RCP 4 COURSE DESCRIPTION

• This Eclipse RCP 4 course will enable you to gain the necessary knowledge for developing on this architecture at a professional level
• It is based on the 4 architecture

Course Objectives

• Understanding E4/OSGi architecture
• Building SWT/JFace UI
• Designing an Eclipse 4 application
• Mastering application distribution

Target Audience

• Developers
• Project managers
• Software architects

Eclipse Architecture

• OSGi Architecture : bundles, fragments, MANIFEST.MF
• Eclipse Architecture : plugins, fragments, features, RCP, e4
• Extensions and extension points, plugin.xml file
• Plug-in development tools : the PDE
• Presentation of Eclipse 4 architecture (EAP)
• Eclipse 3.X vs Eclipse 4.X

The application model

• Content of the application model: parts, commands…
• The model editor and the model spy
• Definition of the UI structure
• The application fragments and processors

Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)

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  • Presentation and comparison with AWT and Swing
  • Simple widgets and containers (Button, Text, Group, …)
  • Advanced widgets : Tree, Table
  • Position management : Layouts et LayoutData
  • Resources management : Font, Color, Images
  • Event management : Events et Listeners
  • Window Builder to design your E4 UI

JFace Library

• Introduction to JFace
• Viewers and the MVC pattern
• Input, Content and LabelProvider
• Registries : color, font and image management
• Widgets to help in writing preference pages

Injection and annotations

• Injection mechanism overview
• Specific annotations for injection
• Computed annotations (preference, event)
• Dynamic instanciation

Injection contexts

• Context hierarchy
• Updating contexts
• Using the context spy to display contexts

Behavior annotations

• View and editors annotations
• Command handlers annotations
• Preferences annotations

Dialogs

• Preferences management
• Properties and wizards

E4 Services

• Model component management
• Part and selection services
• Event broker, event management and Event Spy
• Adapters and loggers
• Other services

Standard APIs

• Data binding, drag and drop and copy/paste
• Jobs and UIJobs
• Actions, operations and commands, undo/redo
• Resources and workspace

Look and Feel, CSS

• Modifying code to manage CSS
• Writing the CSS, syntax, editor and CSS Spy
• Binding the CSS in the application

Defining a new extension point

• Principle, design, definition, schema, parameters
• Java coding and extensions of an extension point

Industrialization and delivery

• Feature, product, p2 repository
• Tests management (core and UI)
• Manual delivery (for multi platform using delta pack)
• Introduction to maven tycho

Exercises

• About fifteen exercises illustrating the concepts on the subject of a rental agency, developed using the latest Eclipse version