Habe was sehr schlau aussehendes über RichClient Platform im Internet gefunden:
Immer auch bedenken, dass Lotus Workbench darauf beruht (auf RCP-Full)
(von
http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_visual_editor/2004/07/23#when_rcp , hervorhebungen ich. Kursiv=kommentar von mir)
When should one code in Eclipse RCP? When should one choose naked SWT? And when should one choose RCPLite, the new middle-ground?
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RCP
+ Provides higher-level application framework than SWT; more
productive if you need its features and like (& can accept) its
general design approach.
+ Can include Eclipse's
update manager if you need to supply software
updates dynamically to clients. This alone could be RCP's killer app
if you're a corporate developer.
Die Tatsache, dass keine Kosten bei der Verteilung/Update der Clients anfiehl war überhaupt ein sehr, sehr wichtiges Argument für das Entstehen der Web-Intranets+ If your application's UI has to scale to huge, epic sizes (like
Eclipse's UI has to be able to scale), RCP helps a lot.
- For small to medium-sized applications that aren't updated often or
are client-side-only, RCP is large, heavyweight, and slow. All that
dynamic UI stuff that helps so much if your UI has to scale to large
numbers of features can just get in the way if you have small and
simple requirements.
SWT (by itself)
+ Small, lightweight, performant.
+ Is low-level. You can code almost anything in it.
- Is low-level. Although you can code almost anything in it, it's so
low-level it sometimes feels like you have to code everything in it.
There's a third option not being talked about much, and that is the
SWTworkbench RCPLite framework. RCPLite is intended to sit in the
middle-ground between naked SWT and Eclipse's full-blown RCP. Here's
roughly how it stacks up:
RCPLite (
http://www.swtworkbench.com/devzone/rcplite/index.shtml):
+ Small, lightweight, performant. It's designed to be as thin a layer
as possible on top of SWT and still provide application framework
features.
+ Imitates the best features of Eclipse's UI and programming model and
improves on a few of them. Most notably these include perspectives, a
unified view/editor model, and the Action framework (for menu bar and
tool bar management).
+ Retains Eclipse 2.1's native look & feel.
+ A much simpler programming model than Eclipse's.
- What you gain in simplicity you lose in UI scalability. RCPLite
isn't designed to be able to support as many features in the
application UI as Eclipse can (yet it's designed to support a
reasonable-sized app; for example, one could rewrite Quicken(tm) using
it just fine).
- No update manager for RCPLite (
yet).
Werde RCPLite versuchen. Kein Bedarf den Helden zu spielenGruß Axel