Eclipse Common Navigator

Posted by Mike Haller on Friday, May 18. 2007 at 22:32 in Eclipse

I worked today on using the Common Navigator in Eclipse to provide a central place for reference data management. Our RCP application consists of several (rather independent) business applications, each of which wants to have an administrative area to configure stem data. To bring all that together, i tried to use the Common Navigator Framework.

It's really tough, the learning curve, as you need to do at least 10 steps to just let some simple entries appear. But it's worth it.

Michael D. Elder has some really good tutorials on the Common Navigator, check them out!

After i fiddled with the Navigator's setup, the content provider and the binding stuff, I could easy add some actions to the context menu of my business domain objects. I know, this would have been a perfect job for EMF.


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My name is Mike Haller and I'm a software developer and architect at Bosch Software Innovations in Germany. I love programming, playing games and reading books. I like good food, making photos and learning and mentoring about the craftsmanship of commercial software development. Stack Overflow profile for mhaller

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