Eclipse RCP application without Eclipse GUI

Question

I'm working on a swing application. I don't want to migrate it to SWT, but I'd like to use some benefits of Eclipse RCP application. Especially, I want to use the update technology to distribute application updates.

It would be great if you knew a tutorial on how to build an Eclipse RCP application that can start a custom GUI based on Swing.

Answer 1

Uhm... I don't think you'll be able to get there with the eclipse rcp...

There's a lot you'd have to adopt, including the whole OSGI structure for your app -- if you're unwilling to change your UI toolkit you've probably already got too much infrastructure in place to want to adopt that much of the RCP.

If it's just swing your married too for whatever reason, look into the netbeans rcp.

If it's just updating you want... there's more then 1 sparkle implementation for java.