Mike Evans

If you have been to Dan Rubel's "Building Commercial-Quality Eclipse Plug-ins" tutorial, or you are a little more experienced and want to explore the viewer framework in depth, this tutorial is for you.

Amongst the subjects covered:

• performance, perceived and actual - threading and jobs;
• accelerating viewers - delayed label providers and virtual content providers;
• data handling strategies - databinding, pagination and event based population;
• overcoming viewer limitations - owner draw, emulated trees, SWT alternatives;
• extension based viewers - element factories & the common navigator framework.

Please bring along a laptop with 'Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers' installed (3.4 or above).

Full material and source is available to take away - download the file below.

Mike has worked with RCP since its inception. He believes that the Eclipse community is one of the greatest innovative forces for real-world application development.

Mike is an adept communicator, having worked as the interface between business and technology in industries ranging from paintbrushes to shipbuilding, from bird protection to bank accounts.

Mike is joint founder and the technical force behind Incremental Ltd. whose product, Incremental Epic, relies on the capabilities of Eclipse RCP, and continues to be actively developed. He also trains others on how to make the most of the RCP platform. Please take a look at www.incremental.eu.com.

Mike lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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