Eclipse Rich Client Platform

Build powerful
desktop applications

The extensible, high-performance platform behind the Eclipse IDE. Modular OSGi bundles, native SWT widgets, and a workbench you can shape into anything.

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News & Downloads

Eclipse Platform News

Release notes, new feature overviews, and announcements straight from the official Eclipse Platform team.

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Eclipse Downloads

Official SDK builds, stable releases, integration milestones, and release candidates direct from the source.

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Learning Resources

vogella Eclipse Tutorials

Free, in-depth documentation covering SWT, JFace, OSGi, the plug-in architecture, and custom RCP applications.

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vogella RCP Training

Professional, instructor-led Eclipse RCP courses for your team, available on-site or as remote classroom sessions.

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learn.vogella.com

Interactive coding exercises, self-study modules, and online certificate courses to verify what you have learned.

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Example GitHub Repos

vogellacompany/eclipse_rcp_example

eclipse_rcp_example

A complete Eclipse RCP example application demonstrating the plug-in architecture, views, editors, and product configuration.

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vogellacompany/codeexamples-ide

codeexamples-ide

A broad collection of Eclipse IDE and tooling code examples covering SWT, JFace, OSGi, and plug-in development patterns.

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04

Open Pull Requests

eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform

eclipse.platform

Core runtime, resource handling, the workspace model, and version-control hooks.

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eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui

eclipse.platform.ui

Workbench layout, JFace frameworks, application shells, and e4 views.

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eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt

eclipse.platform.swt

The Standard Widget Toolkit: Eclipse's native, operating-system-level UI library.

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eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde

eclipse.pde

Plug-in Development Environment: compilers, manifests, and build-configuration tooling.

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05

Custom Update Site

PDE performance

A p2 update site with experimental PDE performance improvements. In Eclipse, open Help → Install New Software and add https://eclipsercp.de/download/update-site as the update site.

Open update site