Eclipse RCP

Akuiteo is a french company that publishes Akuiteo ERP, a software management platform for services companies.

Our main front-end product is an Eclipse RCP-based application. This product was launched in 2007, and our last technical migration (from RCP 3.5 to RCP 3.7) occured in 2012.

After 5 years, it was time to enter in a new era by changing the engine and migrating to e4 !

I'll present the different steps, the doubts, the pitfalls and eventually the success !

Most of us, developers, use databases quite regularly.
SQL, NoSQL, flat-files, spreadsheets - it does not matter. We change our databases frequently. But we don't like to change our tools, we prefer to have one solid interface. Best option if our tools are integrated into our favorite IDE.