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Integrating Firefox with RCP

Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 23:25 by Wayne Beaton
I was asked a question today about whether or not Eclipse RCP can integrate with Firefox . The short answer is “yes”. The longer answer is “what do you mean by ‘integrate’?”. An RCP application can, for example, be the drop target of a link dragged off a browser. SWT...

Who is using SWT?

Monday, September 19, 2005 - 10:41 by Wayne Beaton
If you’re using RCP or even Eclipse itself, you’re using SWT . So… who’s using SWT? Lots of folks are. Ian Skerrett gave some examples of folks using RCP (and SWT by extension) in an blog entry several months back. If you’re using RCP/Eclipse, you’ve also been using Eclipse’s OSGi...

Extending RCP beyond the desktop

Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 14:04 by Wayne Beaton
I guess that the name “Rich Client Platform” should be a tip-off that applications built using RCP technology can extend beyond the desktop. Essentially… if you have a client, it seems that you should probably also have a server. Last night, I started build a collection of views (with an...

Time isn’t free

Monday, September 12, 2005 - 10:02 by Wayne Beaton
In response to my Friday posting , RefuX said “Linux is cheap if your time is free”. This statement is, of course, absolutely correct. However a similar statement about the cost of your time can be made about operating systems that you have to pay for. The amount of time...