Yesterday I was in Ettlingen at the Eclipse Application Developer Day and listened to Benjamin Muskallas track on Singlesourcing the RCP Mail Example. He explained that it needs 2 modifications of the generated RCP application to get the example running with RAP. The first was modifying some declarative data of the bundle, which is understandable; the second change required a direct edit within the RCP Code because the ActionFactory.ABOUT workbench action is (yet) not supported by RAP. The fact of editing RCP code directly is IMHO a critical point in enabling (probably already delivered) RCP applications. I want to show a way how to avoid such modifications with an aspect orientated approach, I’ve learnt on the EclipseDemo Camp in Leipzig, 3 weeks ago, from the team of ObjectTeam. They provide an extension which is compiled with a modified Eclipse Java Compiler and enables some features for modifying call hierarchies; see the website for details. (more…)