In Eclipse 3.1 there was always the problem that you couldn’t give a sort indicator to a sortable TableViewer. This issue was resolved with Eclipse 3.2. Today I want to show a simple TableViewer with a sorting and indicators, filters and a column reordering. Unfortunately the implementation for the sorters on JFace-Viewers don’t support an ascending or desending flag that takes also care for the indicator-representation. We have to implement this for our own.

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Every RCP-Developer is familiar with this question. From a technical view the differences are very well explained by the authors from the eclipse3.0 faq. But is this really helpful? - Which criteria are really important in deciding which graphical components you’ll use? In this article I’ll share my experiences and decisions regarding views and editors.

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Am 29.06.2006 war ich in Mannheim auf der SAP NetWeaver Technology Tour 2006. Die dort vorgestellten Themen sollen die Vorzüge der NetWeaver Plattform in den Bereichen Integration, Prozessmanagement und Development, aber auch im Bereich Model Driven Development aufzeigen.

Auch SAP engagiert sich sehr stark im Bereich moderner Oberflächen. Man versucht hier, einen aus Sicht des Endanwenders flexiblen Weg zu gehen. Je nach Szenario - Gelegenheitsnutzer, Normal User, Power User - werden verschiedene UI zu Auswahl angeboten. (more…)