Abstract

Our open source project LunaRCP provides very useful plug-ins to significantly ease the development of Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) applications. It covers a broad range of RCP topics, e.g. application startup, file operations, jobs API, SWT/JFace, database integration using Hibernate, etc. 

• LunaRCP is distributed under the LGPL.
• LunaRCP is hosted on SourceForge.net.

History

LunaRCP has its roots in our project Pace & Pace! The problems we encountered developing this Eclipse RCP application resulted in very useful solutions - which in succession have been extracted into a generally usable project for developing Eclipse RCP applications called LunaRCP. Our purpose is to make your life a bit more easy by providing this project under the LGPL license, so that it may also be deployed in commercially developed environments.

Features

• Use Hibernate & HSQLDB as persistence solution for your entities that are distributed over several plug-ins
• Open non-file-based Editors that are unknown to the rest of your Eclipse RCP application
• Plug-in modules that should be initialized in certain sequence when starting your Eclipse RCP application
• Use Log4J in your Eclipse RCP application instead of the framework's error logging
• Create nested JFace wizards
• Use JFace utilities for very common tasks
• Easily manage and use your application's icons and images
• Use common utility classes for very common tasks
• Launch external applications
• Use XML utilities for very common tasks related to XML
• ... some more