Jarek Zgoda wrote: > Stef Mientki napisaĆ(a): > >> I took a look at some of the examples build with eclipse, >> and I might be wrong, but it's just another IDE, >> (like Delphi, Lazarus, Visual Basic, Kylix, Pida, Envisage, VisualWX, >> wxGlade, ...) >> what am I missing ? > > I think you miss the difference between Eclipse IDE and Eclipse > Platform. The IDE is and application built using RCP. As Azureus or > RSSOwl, which aren't IDE-type applications. One of the tutorials > mentioned int the RCP wiki takes user through creating an email client > application, which is not an IDE, definitely. Eclipse RCP allows > building applications as a set of pluggable features over common > runtime. While not a "mark-and-drop" solution yet, it's a great leap > forward in Java desktop applications. > > There's more to Eclipse that just IDE. ;) > Sorry, I don't get the difference between an IDE and RPC. If I look at the demo of the "email client" you mentioned, (and I don't understand a bit of Java), I see a very complex story (at least for me).
Is there an easy possibility that I can see the "email client" you mentioned, working on my computer, so I can judge how I would create the same functionality in one of the other IDE's, maybe then I get the picture. thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list