How can i migrate my eclipse rcp 3.x ui plugin to e4 rcp? [closed]

Question

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.

---

This question appears to be off-topic because it lacks sufficient information to diagnose the problem. Describe your problem in more detail or include a minimal example in the question itself.

Closed 9 years ago.

Improve this question

Previously i was using eclipse rcp 3.x for the development .Recently I am thinking it to move to e4 rcp.I have many ui plugins which is written in legacy eclipse 3.x.I went through below mentioned tutorial but does not have any clue from where to start. http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2011/06/10/how-to-apply-the-e4-programming-model-to-3-x/

Answer 1

The tutorial you reference is for using some of the e4 code (mainly direct injection) in an existing 3.x code base.

If you want to switch to 'pure' e4 then you can't use anything from .org.eclipse.ui.xxxx plugins (you can use JFace and SWT code), workspace code (such as IFile) is also not available. I converted a personal project to pure e4 but it was a lot of work.

This tutorial covers e4 development (there is also a book based on the tutorial). I would suggest going through that to see how e4 works before trying to convert your existing code.

Looking at views, in 3.x you define a view in the plugin.xml and create a class implementing ViewPart. In an e4 application you define the view part in the application model (Application.e4xmi) and the implementing class is a POJO (does not extend anything). The way view menu items are created also changes to use the application model.