Development of Eclipse RCP applications
New book: Eclipse Rich Client Platform (4th Edition)
Fully updated for Eclipse 2025-12. Covers SWT, JFace, OSGi, Maven/Tycho builds, and migrating legacy Eclipse 3.x applications.
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Getting started guides
Eclipse Table and Trees
Deep dive into Eclipse RCP
- Eclipse Drag and Drop
- Using CSS Styling for Eclipse applications
- The Eclipse event system (EventAdmin)
- Eclipse framework and model events
- Accessing and modifying the Eclipse context
- Eclipse 4 Model Persistence
- Eclipse target platform
- Eclipse WindowBuilder - Creating user interfaces
- Eclipse Jobs and Background Processing
- Testing Eclipse Plug-in and RCP components
- How to create Eclipse plug-ins from Java libraries (JAR files)
Premium content
- Extending Eclipse dependency injection with customer logic based on custom annotations
- Register for the Eclipse application life cycle
- Using custom context functions in Eclipse
- Using the renderer framework in Eclipse RCP
- Eclipse RCP and Plug-in Internationalization
- Wrting software test for Eclipse RCP applications
- Migrating Eclipse 3.x plug-ins and RCP applications to Eclipse 4
- Extending the Eclipse application model