Visual Java interface design with Eclipse

Preface
Recently, the Eclipse open-source Project finally launched the long-awaited Visual Editor Project (VEP ). The VE project adds a visual java component development tool for the powerful eclipse platform in java development. It allows java developers no longer to rely on other IDE products for GUI work. All development, from application interface to business logic development, can now be completed on the eclipse platform. This article guides developers how to install and configure and use Visual Editor.
About Visual Editor
Before getting started, let's look at a java program interface designed by the author using Visual Editor (VE:
Its visual interface design is no inferior to other Java visual interface development tools.
Visual Editor is an open-source eclipse Editor. Similar to other eclipse tool projects such as JDT and PDE, it is a brand new eclipse tool project. It can visually edit the java GUI program and edit the visualized Java Bean component. It can be integrated with eclipse's Java Editor. When you edit the graphic interface in Visual Editor, the code in java Editor is immediately fed back. And vice versa.
VE is a visual development framework. The current version of VE is 0.5.0RC1. This version of VE supports visual Java component development of Swing and AWT. Because this framework is designed to be universal, it can also easily implement visual development in C ++ or other languages. Its future version (starting from 1.0) will support SWT development. For more information about Visual Editor, see references.
Download and Install
Because Visual Editor is written in pure java, it should be able to run on any operating system. However, the current version of VE is 0.5.0RC1, which is only tested on windows and linux platforms. Therefore, if you are using an operating system other than the two operating systems, you should first read the readme file of VE, before installing and using VE, you must first install the following versions of eclipse and related support class libraries:
Eclipse build 2.1.2 (build page) (download zip)
EMF build 1.1.1: (build page) (download zip)
GEF Build 2.1.2: (build page) (download zip)
To facilitate Chinese developers, eclipse also provides a Chinese language pack. After downloading and installing the pack, the elcipse environment will become a full Chinese interface. In this article, the Chinese language pack is also installed in eclipse. Then you can download Visual Editor from the following address:
Http://download.eclips.org/vep ....
The downloaded VE is a zip file. Extract the contents in the plugins and features directories in the compressed package to the corresponding directory in the eclipse installation directory. If your eclipse is running, close and restart eclipse.