Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Second Edition

Foreword

In my foreword to the first edition of this book, I wrote that the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a lot like the enormous rockets that carry NASA’s robots into space: powerful, sophisticated, essential, but ultimately just the launch vehicle that propels our creations safely to their destinations. Four years later, the RCP continues to serve as the launch vehicle for the tools that my team develops to control a broad variety of spacecraft and robots that drive, fly, float, and move in ways that defy categorization. It provides us with a firm foundation for component-based development, a flexible framework for rich user interfaces, and countless other capabilities that surround and support the small nugget of software that my ...