Does anybody have experience/advice in building a rich client app based on Eclipse RCP? The app is a data entry utility that needs to operate in offline mode as well as connect to a web service. The general idea is to do data entry to a local (derby or sqllite) db and then do a bulk export/upload. Sychronization and validation will happen (mostly) on the main server, but the offline app will do some validation and sync some data (for lookup lists) when the network is available (on export or upload for instance). I would like to use as much of the model and controller infrastructure from the web app as possible and use the eclipse platform to provide the app with cross-platform environment.
I've got the web app and command line tools using the same model and controllers (for the most part) and that makes my life much easier. One of the last bits of old ad-hoc tools is this offline data entry piece and my goal is to be able to build this for Mac, Linux and Windows. I'm leaning toward Eclipse RCP at this time because it's familiar and I like having the infrastructure of Eclipse to build on. It's early enough in the process that any experience, advice, comments are appreciated and there is still time to make changes. I have an opportunity now to replace the existing offline methods before we roll out a number of new clients so I need to get a proof of concept working pretty quickly. Larry Mills-Gahl _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
