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I have been given the task of porting an Access application to Eclipse RCP/RAP. The databases will remain unchanged, just the front-end will be redeveloped.
Having spent some away from eclipse development, I’m wondering what kind of support is available for data-binding to databases. What about controls such as DataGrid (edit/insert/delete rows), multi-line list items and so on?
What frameworks are there? Which ones are still being actively developed?
Thanks!
I’m not aware of any possibility to bind widgets directly to a database. You’ll need to build a Java representation of your database models. Depending on the size of your project, Hibernate or EclipseLink will be preferable to JDBC.
JFace provides data binding that is easy to include into an RCP application. And with Grid and NatTable, there are two SWT implementations of advanced tables available, but I don’t know how well they are supported by JFace data binding. Check the nebula project for other advanced widgets.
Eclipse Riena also provides advanced data binding (by conveniently wrapping JFace), but this is only one of many features. There is an experimental implementation that allows to run Riena applications on RAP.