Because I have already read many reviews that dealt with Eclipse 3.3 as a tool or IDE, I want to take up the the aspects of RCP Development with Eclipse 3.3. It is to notice that I am using Eclipse 3.3 since the M5 Release because of the Eclipse UI Form enhancements. (more…)

The Eclipse Update Mechanism is an essential feature for RCP development. Without the possibility to update content or business logic or to fix a bug after you have distributed your product, the RCP Framework wouldn’t be interesting. But the problem is the basic concept of Eclipse itself. It is developed as an open platform where you can plug into everything you want. For RCP-Development this is not practicable in the majority of the cases. You need a restricted management of updates where the user has no choices and no possibility to customize any parameter of an update. Unfortunately Eclipse’s Update-Manager can not be restricted out-of-the-box. In the following I will share my experience with modifying the org.eclipse.update.ui-Plugin. (more…)