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As a Java developer I dislike Eclipse as a (Java) IDE but I like the Eclipse RCP platform and I would like to build an application upon Eclipse RCP.

Is there a feasible way to develope Eclipse RCP applications in IntelliJ? I do understand that I might have to do some of the configuration in Eclipse but I would like do the most of coding in IntelliJ.

Hannes
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I think it is not possible/hard to develop/configure Eclipse RCP using Intellij-Idea.

  1. plugin.xml configures the required dependencies. If you open an rcp project there Plug-in Dependencies below JRE System Library.
  2. The Plug-in Dependencies will contain the jar files required for the eclipse rcp project. The jar files will be added in it when dependencies in plugin.xml is added.
  3. .product file won't be recognized in IntelliJ which is used for running or exporting the product.
  4. There are quite a lot of things like Activator, E4LifeCycle classes which is hard to configure in IntelliJ.
prithivraj
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