I’ve installed a cvs-server where you can directly check out the source-code examples. Furthermore you can download the compiled examples via HTTP. For more Information see the cvs-page.

Do you know the Perspective-Bar? - And have you ever tried to integrate the perspecitve-bar in your RCP? If yes, did you suceed?

From my experience, perspectives are really useful for representing blocks of funtionality, something like a workflow or a set of requirements that are bundled. The perspective-bar is a very nice feature, necessary in the JDT but has a great disadvantage: The lack of integrity.

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When I made my first “Hello World” PlugIn I didn’t care about such things like Data-Workflow or Application Data Tree, I just tried the different features the framework provided. But as the applications became more and more complex and also the amount of different views, perspectives and editors increased I was forced to implement different mechanism to manage all the different data and their presentation. In this article I want to show how to install the Model-View-Controller in your RCP to make a clear software-archictcture and flexible ways for interacting between view and model.

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Have you ever recognized the complex widgets that are implemented in the IDE plugins?- The most different use cases shipped by plugins like the Compare-Plugin, Team-Plugin, JDT-Plugin are realized with very good looking and also good feeling widgets. So I thought I try to encapsulate such a widget that I can use it in every context. This article gives an overview about a DetailedSectionViewer, which is based on the org.eclipse.ltk.internal.ui.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistoryControl. (more…)