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RCP from my readers

I got two comments from my readers recently on RCP:

  1. Henry wrote "Why Eclipse RCP is going to rule the world", giving 5 reasons. I agree with his arguments that Eclipse RCP is the ideal platform for building desktop clients, especially if they need to be cross-platform. There is a lot of momentum behind it and you would be hard pressed to duplicate what it provides you on your own.

  2. Kent commented that

    "RCP saved me an incredible amount of time. I certainly cannot thank the Eclipse project enough. Without it I would have taken a lot longer to create the BigBlogZoo and it would not look as nice."
    Again, using RCP saves you time because it is just plain hard and time consuming to build a desktop application framework. Bonus points that it makes your desktop app look like every other app on your system, that is like a native app.