Designing Business and Technical User Interfaces in RCP Applications

Morten Moeller (Lombardi)

Abstract:

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 48:17 minutes

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