Re: Scaled down Eclipse for an application framework

From: Harald Niesche (harald_at_theco.de)
Date: 04/26/04

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    Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:35:14 +0200
    
    

    jc1771 wrote:

    > Hi all,
    >
    > We've identified the need to find a thick client application framework
    > with some serious plug-in capabilities and are looking at Eclipse to
    > do it rather than go and build something ourself. I've looked around
    > a lot and can find tons of stuff about using Eclipse as an IDE, but
    > not much about using it as an application framework. Here are a few
    > questions that I have:
    >
    > 1. Can you 'Scale Down' Eclipse to remove all of the program
    > generation stuff? We would like something that is pretty light to
    > download over the LAN.

    As far as I remember, there was one effort towards this hosted on
    sourceforge.net (they used Swing for the UI).

    Since Eclipse 3.0 is based on the osgi specification for the plugin
    architecture, you might want to look at OSGi implementationss. (There
    are several free implementations, easily found on google.)

    HTH

    Harald
    PS: Just noticed how old your post is -- have you solved the problem
    already? How?


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