Desktop program development using Eclipse RCP (i): Fast start

The so-called RCP, the rich-client platform, the client platform, is the product of Eclipse Evolution (since version 3.0), the Eclipse organization to provide users with a powerful open development platform to enable users to easily Create your own eclipse-based applications, and these applications can get the underlying support of Eclipse. More importantly, we can use Java to create a desktop program as beautiful as Eclipse.

I believe that RCP will become very popular in the next few years. With RCP, we can develop interfaces such as beautiful desktop programs like Eclipse, hospital management Systems, CAD software, and so on. Unfortunately, at present in the country basically cannot find the Chinese information about RCP, we can only through their own exploration to our program to add the functionality we want.

Here's a step-by-step way to build an Eclipse RCP program, which can be said to search a lot of Google, some people will feel boring, but it doesn't matter, this is just a quick start.

Select New-Project and select Plug-in Project:

Click Next, enter the project name, choose Eclipse Version, I choose 3.2 here: