A common usecase is running long processes and waiting for their completion. Therefore responsiveness is an important feature, that can be realized with the jobs-framework provided by eclipse. The user wants to continue working while a long running job is scheduled, not sitting in front of a frozen UI that is not responding until the job has finished.

Today I want to demonstrate some key features of the jobs api and encourage RCP developers to use the functionality to make a user friendly interaction and a clear management of your application-specific jobs. A good article for this topic you can find on the eclipse-website.

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