Create first RCP app

In this tutorial we start from scratch and build RCP app. Other tutorials are available here.

1. Create folder "tutorials/MyRcpApp", create file "build.gradle" in it, insert code:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    jcenter()
  }

  dependencies {
    classpath 'org.akhikhl.wuff:wuff-plugin:0.0.1'
  }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse-rcp-app'

repositories {
  mavenLocal()
  jcenter()
}

The script describes that we are using wuff gradle-plugin and that we apply "eclipse-rcp-app" plugin to this project.

2. Invoke on command line: gradle scaffold

Scaffold task creates classes required by Eclipse RCP.

3. Invoke on command line: gradle build

CHECK: folder "tutorials/MyRcpApp/build/libs" contains file "MyRcpApp-1.0.0.0.jar", which is proper OSGi bundle with automatically generated manifest and "plugin.xml".

CHECK: There's one product in "tutorials/MyEquinoxApp/build/output" folder. It contains "MyRcpApp" bundle in "plugins" subfolder and in "configuration/config.ini".

Attention: first wuff build might be slow, because wuff downloads Eclipse and installs it's bundles into local maven repository ($HOME/.m2/repository). Consequent builds will be much faster.

Note that we don't have to program "plugin.xml", "MANIFEST.MF", "config.ini" - all these files are generated and inserted into bundle and product automatically.

4. Run the compiled product from command line. Expect to see:

   

The example code for this page: tutorialExamples/RcpApp-1.

Next page: Configure RCP products.