DraK's Klog

The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) came under fire at a recent internal meeting. Most notably "RCP is a bear to work with", and "RCP and Java Web Start don't play nicely together".

The first point is fairly subjective, but the second is more tangible. Now, the speaker and his team are smart people, and mitigating circumstances undoubtedly explain his statements, but to my mind, RCP and Web Start play together very nicely indeed. In this article, I will present a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a simple RCP-based Hello, World application and how to extend it for deployment by Java Web Start.