Track: TRAINING: LANGUAGES AND PLATFORMS / Time: Friday 09:00 - 16:00 / Location: SAS Radisson Blu

The Eclipse 4.0 SDK brings a lot of exiting new features. One goal of Eclipse 4.0 was to make the development of plug-ins and rich client applications easier. In this tutorial, Kai will give an overview of selected new Eclipse 4.0 features. During the tutorial you will develop a small but complete Eclipse 4.0 Rich Client Platform based application that demonstrates many of the new features. This tutorial is a hands-on tutorial, so please bring your own notebook with the latest Java JDK and Eclipse 4.0 SDK installed.

The following topics will be covered:

• Introduction to Eclipse 4.0
• Creating a “Hello, World” RCP 4.0 application
• Workbench model
• Toolbar, menu, parts, commands, and handlers
• Dependency injection
• Services
• Look & Feel customization with CSS
• Dynamic theme switching
• Rendering Engine

Keywords: Java, Eclipse, RCP, e4, CSS, Look & Feel, UI, Hot Topic, Architecture, Dependency Injection, Modelling

Target audience: Java developers/architects who are interested in the new features of the Eclipse 4.0 Rich Client Platform

Participants attending this training course have to bring a notebook with Java 6 JDK installed

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