Integrating with Eclipse

The SwingRCP package includes 2 files, 'swingrcp_1.1.0.zip' and 'com.swingrcp.ui.wizards_3.2.0.jar' for Eclipse 3.2 or 'com.swingrcp.ui.wizards_3.3.1.jar' for Eclipse 3.3.1.

 

 1 - Create a new target folder, say "C:\target" and unzip the 'swingrcp_1.1.0.zip' contents into that folder. You will be using this as your target application rather than Eclipse's RCP SDK. Make sure you do not mix our RCP files with Eclipse's. When you are done, you should have a directory structure like the following:

2 - In order to use our project wizard in Eclipse, copy the 'com.swingrcp.ui.wizards_3.2.0.jar' into your Eclipse's plug-ins folder. For example, if you have installed your Eclipse in your root folder "C:\Eclipse" then our wizard will need to be copied to "C:\Eclipse\plugins".

 

3 - Launch your Eclipse PDE and specifiy a new workspace folder to hold your new project, eg. "C:\workspace".

 

4 - Make Eclipse use your new target. Go to Windows>>Preferences>>Plug-in Development>>Target Platform. Select the 'Browse' button and choose your target directory installed above. And then select Reload to get the new plugins. You should see the list of plugins as such :

 

Now you are done. Just click 'OK' and continue to the next example to create a sample skeleton application.