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Hey guys. I am just a beginner in eclipse rcp I'm feeling it hard to understand the concepts. Infact I struggling to create a button, somebody pls give a good suggestion as to how to start with rcp.

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The Vogella's tutorial on RCP is both up-to-date and quite complete.

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You can also read about the difference between plug-in, feature and product in eclipse RCP.

VonC
See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/159190/eclipse-rcp-toolbar-buttons-with-the-eclipse-look on the button topic.
VonC
See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1505292/swt-jface-or-eclipse-rcp on RCP in general
VonC
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In addition to the RCP resources mentioned by VonC, for lower-level stuff (you mentioned creating a button) check out the SWT snippets: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/

Fabian Steeg
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I'd suggest looking at the built-in example applications , especially the mail application they're quite helpful.

And every time you run into something you don't understand - check out the plugin.xml the answer is probably there =)

Yon
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In addition to online resources, there are some good introductory books, including:

  • Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel's "Eclipse plugins," Addison-Wesley.
  • Vladimir Silva's "Practical Eclipse Rich Client Platform Projects", Apress.
  • Other books in the Addison-Wesley Eclipse series, such as Steve Northover and Mike Wilson's "SWT: The standard widget toolkit" (from 2004, but still useful).
Andy Thomas-Cramer