Understanding JFace Data Binding
Boris Bokowski (IBM Rational Software), Michael Scharf (Wind River), Frank Gerhardt (Gerhardt Informatics)
Rich Client Platform · Tutorial
Presentation
Monday, 16:00, 2 hours | Grand Ballroom F | 
Boris Bokowski
Michael Scharf
Frank Gerhardt
In this tutorial we introduce the concepts of the JFace data binding framework including Observables and Bindings. We show how to create bindings for SWT, JFace, JavaBeans, and EMF. The tutorial contains many code examples and live demos.
Boris Bokowski is a Software Developer with IBM Rational Software in Ottawa, Canada and a full-time Eclipse committer working on the Platform UI team. He is part of the "API police" for the Eclipse Platform, and a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. Boris is looking at the UI side of the RCP, and among other areas owns the JFace viewers component. He is also the main architect of the JFace data binding framework. He holds a PhD in computer science from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Michael is one of the architects of the Wind River Workbench, CDT based IDE for embedded development. He works for WindRiver since 1994. Earlier in his career, he worked for 9 years in the area of computational molecular biology using object oriented technology for analysis and visualization of complex data. He is working with eclipse since 2001.
Dr. Frank Gerhardt is a pioneer of commercial Eclipse RCP application development and founder of Gerhardt Informatics, an Eclipse Foundation member company. Gerhardt Informatics offers consulting, training and software development services. Frank can be reached at fg@gerhardtinformatics.com.
