When developing an Eclipse RCP application in the past, you needed to use the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) as UI toolkit for creating and rendering the user interface. With Eclipse 4 you are not restricted to SWT anymore. The architecture separated the application model and the rendering, which allows to create an Eclipse based application using a different UI toolkit. Currently there are implementations for JavaFX and Vaadin available.
The following recipe shows the steps necessary to migrate a simple Eclipse 4 application from SWT to JavaFX using the e(fx)clipse tooling and runtime. It is based on the basic recipe introduced in a previous blog post and can also be used as basis for further recipes.
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