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http://www.ralfebert.de/blog/eclipsercp/riena_tutorial/

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Riena_Getting_Started_with_Client_Monitoring

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/03/riena-1.0

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/07/eclipse_riena

• Typical RCP applications are based on the workbench metaphor used heavily in the Eclipse IDE. The workbench metaphor is very flexible and generic, which supports the developers in the development stage. However, enterprise applications very often need a different business process oriented UI metaphor in order to support end users more effectively.
• Riena will provide a UI metaphor that supporting the interaction of typical business process oriented applications. The navigation and visualization should help the user to focus on the current process and task, but also allow him to work simultaneously on a different process
• Riena´s approach will be based as much as possible on already existing RCP constructs (e.g. Layout Managers, views, Extension Points) and use existing Eclipse technologies (e.g. SWT, JFaces, Data-Binding).

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Riena_RemoteServices

Eclipse Riena 1.0 is Now Available
The Eclipse Riena project leaves Incubator status

Ottawa, Canada – March 2, 2009 –The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Eclipse Riena, a platform for developing multi-tier rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and Equinox. With this release Riena leaves the Incubator status and graduates to a mature Eclipse project. The first release provides a set of major components and is now available for download at www.eclipse.org/riena.

Riena provides a platform for building distributed enterprise applications that simplify the user interface development and the integration of back-end systems. Core to Riena is an OSGi-based Remote Services Component that allows developers to easily create distributed client/server applications.

• Remote Services allows for the communication and coordination between OSGi-based components on a client and server, enabling truly distributed component deployment.
• Riena User Interface and Navigation Components provide developers with the frameworks and building blocks that accelerate the development of the client user experience for business-centric applications.
• Object Transaction allows developers to isolate the object level changes on a client application before communicating those changes to a server. This enables more efficient client/server communication and client rollback of changes.
• Authentication and Authorization extend the Equinox Security model to allow for security in a distributed system.
• Client Monitoring is a server component that tracks the status of each client in a distributed system.

http://ekkescorner.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/helios-howto-get-cdo-3-0-to-push-view-modifications-into-running-rcp-apps/

redview¶

A declarative framework based on the Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF), for creating RCP Views enriched with Riena Ridgets.

Goals¶

• Building a framework, which handles hierarchically business UI on a declarative and dynamic way.
• MDSD approaches to generate the viewdefinitions ecore model directly from the business model using openArchitectureWare.
• Further changes of the viewdefinition should be made directly in the business ui, which uses EMF-Edit to change the ecore model.
• Full integration of Riena-Ridgets.
• redView is a WYSiWYG Editor of SWT Views and can be used for Prototyping, RCP Apps with CRUD functionality and more.

Design¶

This framework is built as a 4-tier application.

Model tier¶

The deepest tier is the EMF-model-tier. The EMF-model stores the view description via a metamodel. Changes to the model will be delivered to the adapter tier.

ModelAdapter tier¶

The modelAdapter-tier validates modelchanges, notifies the viewAdapter-tier and maybe handles transactions. The modelAdapter-tier does not have any dependency to the view implementation.

ViewAdapter tier¶

The viewAdapter-tier is the connection between the model and the UI. It should be independent to the type of the UI-implementation like SWT oder Swing. This tier is responsible for creating new viewElements, DragAndDrop, databinding,...

View tier¶

The view-tier accords as an abstraction of the currently used UI technology like SWT, Swing. Changes to the view like field orders, visibility, enablement, requirement, connected validators and converters will be passed to the model-tier by using the viewAdapter-tier and so on EMF-Edit.
Open Source

redView is an Open Source Project - first beta downloads will be available beginning of august 2009.