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Obtiva shares RCP experience at EclipseCon 2008

EclipseCon2008 is the premier technical and user conference for the Eclipse platform. Held this year at the Santa Clara Convention Center March 17-20, the conference will feature topics on everything Eclipse from mobile computing to Java, to C++, and open source.


Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Eclipse RCP
Kevin P. Taylor and Nicholaus Malnick co-presented this 2 hour tutorial that included:

  • Applying sensible TDD practices while writing Eclipse RCP applications
  • Pair programming with Kevin and Nick
  • Eclipse IDE and techniques demonstration that participants will leverage to write unit tests and make them pass
  • Additional topics such as user interface testing, Model View Presenter (MVP) vs. Model View Controller (MVC), databinding, PDEUnit, TPTP and automated acceptance testing will also be discussed


    • Creating Enterprise Business Applications Using Eclipse RCP
    Kevin P. Taylor presented this 50 minute talk This talk emerged out of Obtiva’s experiences gained while working on a large Eclipse RCP/J2EE enterprise application containing millions of lines of code. It will address the gap between the standard functionality of Eclipse RCP and what is needed for the creation of polished highly usable business applications. The talk included:
  • Dividing responsibilities between the RCP client and J2EE Server
  • Applying the MVP pattern to RCP client views facilitating easier unit testing
  • Eclipse Application Updating
  • Employing the JFace Databinding API to decouple models and UI widgets
  • Structuring form-level validation and error handling
  • Notification and synchronization of data between the client and server
  • Managing disconnected network functionality
  • Client side database strategies


    • JRuby on RCP
    Andy Maleh presented this 10 minute lightning talk. Attendees:
  • Were introduced Glimmer
  • Gained knowledge of what JRuby and Glimmer provide over Java
  • Developed a solid understanding of how JRuby can improve maintainability and productivity while building RCP applications