Eclipse (software) - Rich Client Platform

Rich Client Platform

Eclipse provides the Rich Client Platform (RCP) for developing general purpose applications. The following components constitute the rich client platform:

  • Equinox OSGi – a standard bundling framework
  • Core platform – boot Eclipse, run plug-ins
  • Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) – a portable widget toolkit
  • JFace – viewer classes to bring model view controller programming to SWT, file buffers, text handling, text editors
  • Eclipse Workbench – views, editors, perspectives, wizards

Examples of rich client applications based on Eclipse are:

  • Lotus Notes 8
  • Novell/NetIQ Designer for Identity Manager
  • Apache Directory Studio

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