Are you a designer, product manager or developer who has users of various skills that use your Eclipse Applications?

Many software vendors are shipping their own specialized versions of Eclipse (either as RCP or on top of Platform), but rarely are the vendors taking advantage of Eclipse’s customizable presentation layer. This is often because the vendor has a requirement to deliver their application as plug-ins into a standard Eclipse install. If you want to keep this ability, you have to design and implement your plug-ins with that in mind; or if your tool is used by business users and developers, then creating a simplified presentation for the business user persona can drastically lower the barrier of entry for this group. This webinar will go into both user interaction design and GUI development strategies to make your Eclipse plug-ins work with or without your own presentation implementation, and what the design limitations are to the Eclipse Presentation API.

Topics that will be covered:

• Brief overview of the presentation API
• Design limitations of the Presentation API - make sure the UI design is implementable
• The dual presentation world - design Eclipse assets that work in your UI as well as Eclipse standard presentation
• Implementation strategies to make your own views, actions and editors take advantage of your special presentation
• In practice - an example of a dual presentation product

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

The first generation of web applications sacrificed usability and function for ease of deployment. Recently the industry has shifted back to richer user interfaces written in Ajax, Flash, and Java. Many business applications have requirements such as offline access, desktop integration and UI customizations or responsiveness that make Ajax and Flash less attractive. For such applications, rich client architectures featuring online deployment and web enabled client/server communications provide the easiest path to development success. Eclipse's Rich Client Platform provides organizations a valuable jump start in the creation of such applications.

However, a number of the core functions of such business applications are not handled transparently by Eclipse RCP out of the box.

This talk emerges out of the experiences Kevin's team gained while working on a large Eclipse RCP/J2EE enterprise application (millions of lines of code). It will address the gap between the standard functionality of Eclipse RCP and what is needed for the creation of polished highly usable business applications. Among the topics covered:

• Dividing responsibilities between the RCP client and J2EE Server
• Applying the MVP pattern to RCP client views facilitating easier unit testing
• Eclipse Application Updating
• Employing the JFace Databinding API to decouple models and UI widgets
• Structuring form-level validation and error handling
• Notification and synchronization of data between the client and server
• Managing disconnected network functionality
• Client side database strategies

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

Extension Points :: Eclipse Plugin Architecture revolves around 2 terms - Extension and Extension Points. To put it simply, an extension point says, "Here is a slot for you to provide me with new behavior," and an extension says, "Here is the new behavior you asked for."

Most of us know how to add a new behaviour to an existing extension point. This demo talks about adding your own extension point or providing a slot for others to contribute a behaviour.

Thanks to Alex Blewitt's article on Creating Extension Points.

In today's world of complex GUI applications, it is no easy task to ensure the quality of the user interface. Testing a medium complex GUI application already takes several weeks of hard work. To be able to stay in-front in today's quickly moving markets nobody has the luxary to allocate that much time for testing.

Therefore investing in automating the GUI tests will bring immediate benefits by improving the quality while shortening release cycles. In addition, automated testing is less error-prone compared to manual human testing.

This demo shows how to automate GUI tests of an Eclipse RCP application demonstrating the basic steps needed to get started.

Total running time 05:34 minutes

More information at www.froglogic.com

Eclipse as a Rich Client Platform is increasingly mainstream. Organizations from NASA to IBM to major banks and airlines have adopted RCP as a core platform for building their applications. In this talk we look at various current RCP usecases and examples and discuss the synergies with Spring.

Eclipse still has even more to offer in the application space. Eclipse's inherent dynamism and the use of Eclipse on the server are largely hidden gems. Spring has its heritage on the server and has enjoyed some use as a rich client platform. In this talk we look at various current RCP usecases and examples, and discuss the evolution and integration opportunities of these technologies.

An agenda of the topics covered is posted with the recording.

Total running time 47:15 minutes

Using SwingRCP you can now create a Swing based application that fully utilize Eclipse's RCP platform.

Total running time 11:58 minutes

The goal of the Eclipse eRCP project is to extend the rich client platform (RCP) to mobile and embedded devices. eRCP allows developers to use the existing Eclipse application model to create software the runs on the desktop and new devices, such as the Nokia S60 or Windows CE devices. In this webinar, Gorkem Ercan, software development manager at Nokia and the leader of eRCP, will introduce the components of eRCP and demonstrate how applications can be built for eRCP.

Total running time 53:13 minutes

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

This comprehensive demo video gives an introduction to creating automated tests for GUI applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP/SWT).

The GUI testing tool presented in this demo is Squish, the leading automated cross-platform GUI testing tool for applications based on Java Eclipse RCP/SWT, Java Swing/AWT, C++ Qt, Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa and Web-based HTML/AJAX applications

More information at www.froglogic.com.

GUIdancer is a powerful Eclipse-based tool for the automated testing of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI's), with a focus on programs written with Java and Swing.

This demo shows how one specification can be used to test different data, languages, components and implementations on different toolkits with GUIdancer.

The demo lasts 2 minutes 20 seconds.

For more information, go to www.guidancer.com.

eFace provides a powerful declarative programming approach on top of SWT/JFace to develop Eclipse RCP applications. It integrates an extensible application markup language (XAML). This approach separates user interface and business logic. The main benefits of this solution are following:

• Rapid and domain-oriented (User Experience) development
• Cross-environment applications
• Insulation from technology change
• Ideal GUI component for MDD/MDA approach

1. Eclipse RCP
2. eFace RCP