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One of the most common questions I’m asked by my clients is whether it’s possible to utilize web-based UI frameworks (Angular, React, Vue, etc.) in an Eclipse RCP application. Until now, my a...

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One of the most common requests I get from my consulting clients is for an easy way to auto-update deployed Eclipse RCP applications. Particularly in enterprise environments these clients have ma...

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For those of you who have been working with the ECF Remote Services JAX-RS Jersey Client, I hope you’ve been finding it useful. Of course, feedback is always appreciated! If you’re wondering ...

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In an earlier post I showed how to add Mockito to Eclipse target definitions. This allows plug-in developers to write and run Mockito-based unit tests both inside the Eclipse IDE and in Maven Tyc...

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One of the most difficult issues facing Eclipse RCP developers has been how to consume third-party libraries. We often want to use JAR files not available as OSGi plug-ins (missing OSGi metadata)...

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This is a continuation of a series of blog posts demonstrating the use of the ECF Remote Services JAX-RS Jersey Client within an Eclipse RCP application. The previous posts are: Eclipse RCP and R...

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In my previous post I showed how to add JUnit support to Eclipse target definitions. This allows plug-in developers to write and run unit tests (both regular and in-container) using all of the to...

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The Eclipse IDE has great tooling for writing and running JUnit tests. For most Java developers this tooling works without any issues, but things get a bit more complicated when working with Ecli...

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This is a continuation of a series of blog posts demonstrating the use of the ECF Remote Services JAX-RS Jersey Client within an Eclipse RCP application. The previous posts are: Eclipse RCP and R...

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Most of the teams I work with are creating hybrid Eclipse RCP applications, meaning that they’re working with a combination of the base RCP 4 platform and the Compatibility Layer which supports...

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