A Study of Java Application Design and Development of Rich Client Application

This tutorial teaches the creation of rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). Soon after its inception, Eclipse was used for building applications outside the tools domain for which Eclipse was originally designed. The Eclipse development team embraced this trend and with Eclipse 3.0 introduced the RCP that facilitates the creation of rich client applications. In this tutorial we describe the overall architecture of an RCP-based application, its specific components, development, packaging, deployment and testing. Participants will learn and perform the steps to build their own RCP application. We will show how to develop a minimal application plug-in, add a feature including custom branding, and package the application for deployment.