1.5. Summary
Eclipse is many things to many people. This book focuses on Eclipse as an RCP. As you have seen, rich client applications are making a comeback and componentized approaches are making them even more attractive.
The Eclipse RCP addresses complex application scenarios that span the spectrum from thin to rich clients and from enterprise- and business-oriented systems to scientific and data management scenarios. The example use cases are from vastly different domains and environments, but yet they illustrate Eclipse as it addresses the universal themes of:
The goal of this book is to describe the use cases, processes, and steps for using the Eclipse RCP to similar effect and benefit while building your rich client applications quickly and effectively.
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