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I am planning to develop a rich set of plugins for Eclipse which would involve 3D Graphics rendering inside Eclipse.
Is JavaFX a good technology choice for developing a Eclipse Plugin?
Is there some other rich client technology that I am missing out on and which can be used to develop Eclipse Plugins (other than SWT and JFace)?
Eclipse 4, the new major release of eclipse, (4.2 due this summer) is supposed to support non-swt frontends in RCP/Plugin development.
However I am not sure how far along is the work to support javafx rendering.
You can find some info on E4 + JavaFX on Tom Schindl’s blog
http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2011/10/17/efxclipse-0-0-7-released/ and
http://efxclipse.org/
Maybe Lars Vogel has also written something about this, I am not sure. Anyways Lars is IMO the best source on the internet when it comes to E4
http://www.vogella.de and
http://www.vogella.de/articles/Eclipse4RCP/article.html
Anyways, Eclipse 4 is the way to go/research if you need RCP without SWT. I do not think this is doable in Eclipse 3.x at all.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4