Spring Desktop

Ok! Now i realized why i don't have any documentation on Spring RCP.
Quote from Spring richclient homepage:

Spring Richclient's Future

The current codebase of Spring Richclient was started a few years ago. Although the code is quite stable, we realise that it's not state-of-the-art anymore. Several technologies and ideas have emerged that should be embraced in the Spring Richclient code (eg JSR Application Framework) and the need for refactoring and revising of the codebase has grown. We opted to start a new project called Spring Desktop that allows us to do this without having our hands tied to the current codebase. This does not mean that Spring Richclient will be abandoned. The current project will be maintained and fixes will be deployed as needed. We're aiming to release the first version of Spring Desktop in October as part of the Spring release train.

So i am eagerly wating for Spring Desktop scheduled in a month. But what should i do till?

I guess i continue with Spring RCP to gain some experience....

Spring RCP

Instead of the GWT based project i turned toward Spring. I've read many books on Spring:

• Manning book


• Apress book

However i like Manning books, for Spring i found Apress' book better.

I really would like to make some tool helps me to organize my work (i work as a project manager). I thought i make a webbased WebFlow/JSF based application. But now i realized that Spring RCP 1.0.0 is out.


Spring RCP project

It is quite ok, but the documentation is missing very much, even a JavaDoc is not available (tell me if you have). However i found some useful description:

• Introduction to Spring RCP by Geertjan Wielenga


• Spring Richclient: A Journey by Chris Parsons

In the coming days i will go through this. What i would like to make then is to add Calendar support for Spring RCP FormBuilder. I will use the Calendar widget from swingx:

JXCalendarPicker

I will share with you my progress. Hopefully much more frequent as i used to so far!