Eclipse RCP terminologies and concepts

Question

I am just starting to develop some application using Eclipse RCP. I was able to hack out a prototype by reading some tutorials. Although I was able to hack out some working code, I found myself shaky on some of the RCP concepts like:

• What is a page? I see a lot of getActivePage() API calls, so I am assuming there can be multiple pages am I correct?
• In the IWorkbechPart API there is an API called getSite(), which is being use a lot, but I am not sure what is a "site"

The above are just a sample of questions I am having, so it would really help me if someone can point me to some articles explain these type of concepts (I did google around without success).

I would also appreciate it if someone can point me to some articles that can educate me on how to write clean RCP code; kind of like the "Effective Java" for RCP.

Answer 1

Take a look at the JavaDoc for the Interfaces, they are well documented and give you an idea of the terminology. For example:

What is a page?

Look at the Javadoc at org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPage

called getSite(),

Look at the Javadoc at org.eclipse.ui.IViewSite

Answer 2

You may want to check this as well: