 | Level: Intermediate Suresh Krishna (suresh.madhuvarsu@gmail.com), Software Developer, Freelance Developer
Trebor Fenstermaker (tcf@sunnysideave.com), Software Consultant, Sunnyside Avenue Software, LLC
Peter Nehrer (pnehrer@ecliptical.ca), Freelance Writer, Freelance Developer
16 Sep 2008 Eclipse Ganymede is the simultaneous release of 24 major Eclipse IDE projects.
This three-part "Using
Eclipse Ganymede to develop for the desktop, Web and mobile devices" tutorial
series covers the following new Ganymede features: RCP,
RAP, and eRCP, which allow you to develop software for the desktop, Web, and mobile
platforms, respectively, with one common code base -- Subversion for version control;
and p2 for update and installation. In this tutorial, we further enhance the
personal organizer developed in Parts 1 and 2, and modify it to be deployed on a
mobile device by using the Embedded Rich Client Project (eRCP).
In this tutorial
This tutorial is for any Eclipse developer who wants to learn how to take the Rich
Client Platform (RCP) desktop application and turn it into a mobile application
Embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP). You should have familiarity with eRCP
concepts, such as extension points and OSGi bundles. Java™ programming knowledge is also required. In Part 1 of this three-part series, you looked at
some of the new Eclipse Ganymede features that have been added to make development
easier, including support for Subversion and a new distribution model for plug-ins
called p2. You also saw some incremental improvements in the mature Rich Client
Platform (RCP) by developing a simple personal task-organizer plug-in application, then
storing it in Subversion and deploying it via p2. In Part 2, you took that same code base for the
personal task organizer and made some small modifications to it to deploy it as a Rich
Internet Application (RIA) using the Eclipse Rich Application Platform (RAP) feature of Ganymede. In this final installment of this series, you will again modify the personal task
organizer to see how you can deploy it on a mobile device using yet another exciting
addition to Ganymede: the Embedded Rich Client Project (eRCP). This set of libraries
allows you to take an application developed with the standard RCP and, with just a few
modifications, turn the application into one that can run on cell phones and other handheld devices. Topics covered: - Downloading the eRCP libraries and setting it up as your target platform.
- Refactoring your code to use the eRCP.
- Testing the personal-organizer application with a simulator.
- Deploying the personal organizer to a mobile device emulator.
Prerequisites
See System requirements below
System requirements
You need the following technologies to follow along:
- Eclipse Ganymede
- Find Eclipse Ganymede at the Eclipse Foundation.
- Java 2 Standard Edition
- The Java™ 2 Standard Edition V5 or greater is available from Sun Microsystems.
- Windows Desktop Eclipse
eRCP target platform environment V1.2
- Download the latest version of the Windows eRCP V1.2 Runtime packages. At the time of
this writing, it was V1.2, dated 2 Sep 2008.
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