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Asked: 2026-05-21T16:30:59+00:00

Background: I have extensive experience in web applications, but I have very little or

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Background:

I have extensive experience in web applications, but I have very little or no experience with RCP. Presently, I am working with Java Swing API. Everything is good. The only problem is, I don’t feel very confident about my design.

Question:

In web application when we implement MVC, we forward the request to a View. The Controller doesn’t care about where to show it. Everything is going to be displayed on a page, typically. But in RCP, we need to know where to show this form/table/etc.. I mean which panel, right or left, up or down. That requires a reference to a container component in which we desire to show the thing. How we should design our code to get that reference?

Take:

I am keeping reference to all first level components in the main class — that has main() method. And then wherever I need some component, I am doing something like,

JPanel formPanel = MainApp.getMainPanel().getFormPanel();
..
JPanel treePanel = MainApp.getMainPanel().getTreePanel();

Is it okay?

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  1. Editorial Team

    MVC isn’t really as much of a thing in RCP, people talk about it but largely it’s bullshit.

    For sure having a model of your business objects that’s separate and had no dependency on any UI code is important. But the lines between Views and Controllers tend to be more blurred I wouldn’t sweat it too much.

    User interface elements naturally tend to be organized in a tree like you have, though global variables such as your main panel should be avoided.

    Lean heavily on the observer pattern.

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