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This page is a start page that describes the current situation of Riena running on E4.
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==Intro==
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This bug is also references by [[https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=370445 Bug 370445]]
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Eclipse 4 offers some key concepts which ease the development of RCP applications.
  
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'''Riena - today'''
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Among these are
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* You can read about the concept of Riena Navigation/Application model/concept on this wiki page [[Riena/Navigation]]
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* EMF based Workbench Model
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* Base UI Concepts are found under [[Riena/UIConcepts]]
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* Separation of Model and Presenentation
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* Customizable Rendering Engine
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* Dependency Injection ( no more Singletons )
  
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In the near future Riena aims to support these new concepts to simplify the implementation of Riena applications in turn.
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Therefore there is a new branch in the Riena git repo where all Riena E4 development happens.
  
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'''Setup Targetplatforms'''
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The following guide will walk through the necessary steps to setup your environment in minutes.
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* Start an Eclipse IDE with an empty workspace
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* Go to Target Platform in Preferences and setup two Target Platforms
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** '''3.8.M5'''
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** update site is http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.8milestones/S-3.8M5-201201251800
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** switch off "Group by category" and sitch off "Include required Software"
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** Select Equinox Target components
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** Select Eclipse RCP and Eclipse RCP SDK
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** click OK and wait for it to download and install (takes some minutes, I hadd 258 plugins in the target platform after that)
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** '''4.2.M5''' as second target platform
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** update site is http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.8milestones
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** select Equinox Target components
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** click ok and wait for it to resolve and download
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** update site is http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.2milestones/S-4.2M5-201201271145
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** Select Eclipse RCP / Eclipse RCP SDK and "Eclipse e4 Rich Client Platform" / "Eclipse e4 Rich Client Platform Developer Resources"
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** Also select "EMF - Eclipse Modeling Framework Core Runtime" and "EMF Common"
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** You need to switch on the "include required Software"
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** click OK and wait for it to resolve and download
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==Get Eclipse==
  
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'''Setup workspace'''
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* Grab the Eclipse Juno 4.2 Release from the website
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* Select 3.8 as your active target platform
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* Install it to your preferred location
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* Clone the Riena Repo from Git using the URL git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/riena/org.eclipse.riena.git
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* open the org.eclipse.riena.releng projectSet.psf file and checkout the projects that are listed there into your workspace
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* all the remaining "compile errors" are because there is no API baseline set, you can change the warning for that to ignore (in the Preferences) and you should have a workspace with no compile errors for 3.8
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'''Start the Riena example based on 3.8'''
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==Setup Target Platform==
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* Target Platform 3.8 is still the activated one (from the setup)
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* Add new, empty Target Definition and give it a name
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* Start the launcher "SWT Example Application", make sure you switch to the plugins tab and click "Add required plug-ins"
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* Add Software Site http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno
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* If all goes well that should bring up a working Riena example client
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* Select Target Platform Components
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* You can click in the navigation (left and top) and see the Riena navigation as it is supposed to work
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** ''Equinox Target Components''
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* This picture looks like this [http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/2/20/Riena_NavigationTwoModules.PNG Image Riena Example Application]
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** ''Eclipse RCP''
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** ''Eclipse RCP SDK''
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** Activate your new Target Platform
  
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''' Start the Riena example based on 4.2'''
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==Get Riena==
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* Switch the Target Platform to 4.2
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* Clone the Riena git repo to any location in your file system
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* You get compile errors.
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<source lang="bash">
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** Open SubApplicationView
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git clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/riena/org.eclipse.riena.git
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** comment out the line in error (we use an internal Workbench method :-) and the if statement around it
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</source>
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** if you later switch back to 3.8 its important to put the statement back in place
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''For more information about using the Riena git repo checkout [[Riena/Git| Riena on Git]].''
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* Start SWT Example Application launcher as above (click on Add required plug-ins)
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* Checkout additional dependencies using the projectset in ''org.eclipse.riena.releng''
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* remove the following plugins from the launcher before you start
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** org.eclipse.riena.communication.console
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** org.eclipse.equinox.console
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You will get errors about the a missing equinox.console bundle that you can ignore. You also get this error:
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java.lang.NullPointerException
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at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.ModelServiceImpl.<init>(ModelServiceImpl.java:92)
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at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.E4Application.createDefaultContext(E4Application.java:482)
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at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.E4Application.createE4Workbench(E4Application.java:172)
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at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$4.run(Workbench.java:548)
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at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
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at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:534)
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at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
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at org.eclipse.riena.navigation.ui.swt.application.SwtApplication.createView(SwtApplication.java:72)
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Revision as of 07:16, 27 June 2012

Intro

Eclipse 4 offers some key concepts which ease the development of RCP applications.

Among these are

  • EMF based Workbench Model
  • Separation of Model and Presenentation
  • Customizable Rendering Engine
  • Dependency Injection ( no more Singletons )

In the near future Riena aims to support these new concepts to simplify the implementation of Riena applications in turn. Therefore there is a new branch in the Riena git repo where all Riena E4 development happens.

The following guide will walk through the necessary steps to setup your environment in minutes.

Get Eclipse

  • Grab the Eclipse Juno 4.2 Release from the website
  • Install it to your preferred location

Setup Target Platform

  • Add new, empty Target Definition and give it a name
  • Add Software Site http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno
  • Select Target Platform Components
    • Equinox Target Components
    • Eclipse RCP
    • Eclipse RCP SDK
    • Activate your new Target Platform

Get Riena

  • Clone the Riena git repo to any location in your file system
 git clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/riena/org.eclipse.riena.git

For more information about using the Riena git repo checkout Riena on Git.

  • Checkout additional dependencies using the projectset in org.eclipse.riena.releng
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