4 out of 5 dentists agree: RCP/Eclipse/Java rocks!
rzwitserloot posted in programming on April 7th, 2006

Just read that azureus, the bittorrent client, has won the sourceforge overall community award. Azureus is built upon RCP, a very powerful desktop application framework. I’ve experimented with it once or twice, and the amount of help, in the form of wizards and tutorials, available for building RCP apps is simply amazing.

(NB: RCP is java-based. Eclipse is itself built in RCP. Almost anything you see in eclipse you can get with RCP, including the ‘docking’ window style, views, editors, perspectives, automated preferences, OSGi package structure, automatic updates, etcetera)

In many ways RCP highlights something I feel is an underrated future for programming in general: Extreme IDE help. I can only imagine the web application server that works as well as RCP does!