Simon Zambrovski

I had a chance to speak about Eclipse Common Navigator Framework on Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg – Galileo Edition. The event was a full success. Five speakers and fourty visitors were attending. After the formal part, there was an opportunity to relax at the bar of East Hotel Hamburg, thanks to Peter and Martin.

My talk was focussed on the basics of CNF. After some slides on Why, What and How, I moved on to a live coding demo and coded a small CNF view inside of an trivial RCP. Everithng worked fine, until the launch – I misspelled one id in the plugin.xml, and had to resign and showed the prepaired result instead of the hacked one. If you want to read more, check out the TechJava report.

Just finished to correct mistakes (thanks to Francis) in the article I posted about the usage of the Common Navigator Framework (CNF). In doing so the article incorporates the information already covered in different blogs, but also focuses on the specific use case of providing a view of data structure completely unrelated to the Eclipse platform resources. So the aim is not to add some content to the “Project Explorer” which is an example of resource-oriented CNF usage, but to provide a view on a completely own data model. This post fostered some communication with Francis regarding the CNF documentation provided in Eclipse, so I’m happy if my contributions can be valuable. As usual, this kind of content goes to TechJava….

Eclipse Platform provides a help system that can be used during creation of the help content for your application. It is very convenient while used inside of the IDE, but needs a special approach if used in the RCP. This article tries to gather the information which may be useful.

You can find more on that in post just published by me on TechJava…