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RCP stands for Rich Client Platform, and is software that provides a platform for application developers to build on. It may also refer to the "remote copy" command in Unix. Use the eclipse-rcp tag for questions about Eclipse RCP.

RCP stands for Rich Client Platform, which is software that provides a platform for application developers to build on. This speeds production, allowing proven framework to be used rather than re-implemented. An example is the Eclipse RCP.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform

It may also refer to the "remote copy" command in Unix.

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What are the differences between plug-ins, features, and products in Eclipse RCP?

What are the differences? What gets used for which purpose?
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What of Eclipse project .metadata can I safely ignore in Git/Mercurial?

We have the code for an Eclipse RCP application in an Eclipse workspace containing multiple Java projects. We are using Mercurial with a simple .hgignore just *.class (but the same issue would pertain to Git). Even a small change to the code can…
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Programmatically showing a View from an Eclipse Plug-in

I have a plug-in to an Eclipse RCP application that has a view. After an event occurs in the RCP application, the plug-in is instantiated, its methods are called to populate the plug-in's model, but I cannot find how to make the view appear without…
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Eclipse RCP: Actions VS Commands

What are differences between Actions and Commands in the context of Eclipse RCP? I know that they both contribute to the menu entries, but which one is better? And why? Of all the online resources I read, I could not get a firm understanding of…
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SWT/JFace or Eclipse RCP?

Which are the reasons to choose the Eclipse Rich Client Platform as the base of my application, instead of just using SWT/JFace?
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How do I write a JUnit test case to test threads and events

I have a java code which works in one (main) thread. From the main thread, i spawn a new thread in which I make a server call. After the server call is done, I am doing some work in the new thread and after that the code joins the main thread. I am…
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How to get the selected node in the package explorer from an Eclipse plugin

I'm writing an Eclipse command plugin and want to retrieve the currently selected node in the package explorer view. I want to be able to get the absolute filepath, where the selected node resides on the filesystem (i.e. c:\eclipse\test.html), from…
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Eclipse 4 RCP (aka E4) documentation

Is there at least anything other than Vogella's tutorials and his book, which is completely based on those tuts? Examples from his repo are often either incomplete/unfinished/won't run and those examples even don't match the book actually.. I'd…
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jar resources in jnlp are not signed by the same certificate

I've been working with web start for a couple years now and have experience with signing the jars and what not. I am taking my first attempt at deploying a RCP app with web start and though I have in fact signed all of the jars with the same…
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Which Rich Client Platform to use

We recently started to develop a Java desktop app and management has requested that we make use of Rich Client Platform. I know of four for Java namely: Eclipse RCP - www link to ecipse rcp, Netbean RCP - Netbeans RCP web site, Spring RCP - spring…
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Howto hide a preference page in an eclipse RCP

I have an eclipse rcp and want to hide the security and help prerence pages. How can I do that?
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Create and bind a GUI from xsd file automatically in eclipse rcp app

I want to create GUI components from XSD files. The generated GUIs should be used for concrete xml instances of the corresponding schema with databinding to "interesting" elements or attributes content. I have considered these solutions: jaxfront.…
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How to express inter project dependencies in Eclipse PDE

I am looking for the best practice of handling inter project dependencies between mixed project types where some of the projects are eclipse plug-in/OSGI bundle projects (an RCP application) and others are just plain old java projects (web services…
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Rich client platforms versus JavaFX 2 versus Swing

Pretty soon now, we're gonna need to develop a GUI for creating configurations (more like scripts, to be honest) for our EAI solution at work. Think of a typical workflow editor. The visualization of the actual flows will most likely be a completely…
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Eclipse-RCP Wrong encoding when deploying the product

I am creating an RCP application, with many Greek messages, so everything is in UTF-8. As I develop and test through Eclipse IDE, everything is fine. When I am deploying through "Eclipse Product export Wizard" the resulting exe does not correctly…
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