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Though the main focus of this article is going to be the usage of the properties API to setup a TableViewer there are some importanted I didn’t explain in Part 4 of this series. Using the properties API in master-detail (continued) Showing validation states The first interesting thing is how to present validation errors to […]

Using the properties API in master-detail In the last blog entry we saw how to set up a the left part of our example application which is a JFace-TreeViewer. This blog article deals with the upper right part of the application who allows the user to edit the data of the selected project in the […]

Setting up a TreeViewer with EMF-Databinding The RCP-Application With this article we are starting to write our RCP-Application which uses Eclipse-Databinding. I’m not going into detail how you create an RCP-Application (I simply use the PDE-Wizard) but assume that you are familiar with this kind of thing. Still I’d like to describe the application design […]

Introduce the new Properties API In 3.5 Eclipse-Databinding introduces a new API which should be used in favor of the 3.4 EMFObservables-Factory because it provides many features who couldn’t be provided by the old API (e.g. the new API provides you with the possibility to observe nested attributes in Table/TreeViewers, allows you do observe different […]

Creation of the Domain-Model Before we can start with the domain model for our application we need to know what the model is going to be for. So let me explain the application we are going to write in this blog series: Suppose the Eclipse Foundation hired you to write an application which allows them […]