Creating your first SwingRCP™ Project

 1 - From the Eclipse PDE, choose File>>New>>Project>>Plug-in Project.

 2 - Select Next and give your test program a name, eg. "Drawing".

 3 - Click Next and you can fill in more properties about the new project. Make sure the 'Rich Client Application' option is checked.

 4 - Click Next and now you will see Swing RCP's wizard's template dialog to create a basic swing program.

 5 - Select the 'Hello Swing RCP' template and click the Finish button. The wizard will now create the skeleton application code and directory structure. Your Package Explorer should have the following :

 Your Overview page should look like the following :

 6 - At this point you can test the application by selecting the Testing>>'Launch an Eclipse application' and you should see the Hello program.