Eclipse RAP and RCP architecture

Even if BACNET is developped in two different workspaces, it uses the fact that RCP and RAP share a great quantity of plugins together. In fact Eclipse RCP was developed first and Eclipse RAP was built afterwards. To learn more about Eclipse RCP and RAP, and know more about about how to develop software with it, we recommend few links and tutorials:

• http://www.eclipse.org/rap/ - Eclipse RAP website
• https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse4/RCP - Eclipse e4 RCP website
• http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/eclipse.html - Tutorials for Eclipse RCP and e4 RCP by Vogella company
• https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/04/10/getting-started-with-eclipse4-applications-on-rap/ - Start with Eclipse e4 RAP
• https://o7planning.org/en/10183/eclipse-rap-tutorial-for-beginners-workbench-application - Tutorial for creating your first Eclipse e4 RAP application
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/RAP/E4 - Eclipse e4 RAP official website
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2cz1TzBUxk - Tutorial for Eclipse RAP

If you have any problem regarding the use of Eclipse software, and Eclipse RAP and RCP architecture, you should first search your question on Eclipse forum and help page:

• http://www.eclipse.org/forums/ - Eclipse forum
• http://help.eclipse.org/photon Eclipse help page

Eclipse RAP and RCP are based on SWT library so to learn how to make some nice interface in Eclipse RAP and RCP you can look at this list of widgets and snippets for SWT:

• http://www.eclipse.org/swt/widgets/ - SWT widgets
• http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/ - SWT snippets