Package and Deploy Desktop Application SWT/RCP

The document is based on:

• Eclipse 4.4 (LUNA)

First make sure that you know SWT/RCP. If not, you may refer to learn SWT/RCP at:

• SWT:

• RCP

In this document I will create a RCP Project, example to packaging and deploying.

• File/New/Other...

Enter:

• Project name: SimpleRCP

Enter:

• Activator: org.o7planning.tutorial.simplercp.Activator

Enter:

• Java package name: org.o7planning.tutorial.simplercp

Project was created:

We run RCP Project has created, to ensure that everything is OK !.

Right-click the project SimpleRCP, select Run As/Eclipse Application.

The application runs successfully.

• File/New/Other...

Enter:

• File name: SimpleRCP

Enter:

• ID: mysimlercp 
• Version: 1.0.0
• Name: RCP Demo

Enter:

• Product ID: rcpdemo

First Add your application to:

After pressing the Add Required Plug-ins, Eclipse automatically calculated and added to the list of all the plugins needed for applications that can run independently:

Switch to the Configuration tab:

OK, that's all the minimum configuration required:

Enter:

• Root directory: eclipse
• Directory: D:/SimpleRCP

Tools have created an application, including 2 folder as shown below:

Note: It is not packaged into a single exe file.

Click eclipse.exe to run the application.

If you receive an error message "Failed to load the JNI shared libray", which means that the application can not find a place of the JRE or JDK or not valid JRE/JDK version.

In that case you have to declare the JAVA_HOME environment variable on the OS. Or open eclipse.ini to directly configure the Java virtual machine.

Add:

-vm
D:\DevPrograms\Java\jdk1.7.0_45\bin\javaw.exe

OK now you can run your application.

• TODO .... Splat.