LunaRCP 0.2

LunaRCP provides some very useful plug-ins to ease the development of Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications.
LunaRCP covers a broad range of RCP topics, e.g. application startup, file operations, jobs API, SWT/JFace, database integration using Hibernate.

Main features:
- Display and manage your tours and courses recorded by your GPS device
- Convert your recorded or downloaded data from one GPS format to another
- Be platform independent (runs on Windows, Linux, etc.) due to Java technology
- Manage, view or edit your training sessions
- View training reports over a certain period (week, month, year, custom)
- Monitor your personal development over the time
- Exchange tours and courses with your friends
- Connect to your device: transfer recorded data or upload courses and waypoints you found in the internet
- Associate photos with your managed courses or waypoints
- Direct support for popular sports like biking, jogging, etc
- Perform online updates to get the latest version
- Mark special locations

System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Use Hibernate and HSQLDB as persistence solution for your entities that are distributed over several plug-ins.
- Open non-file-based editors that are unknown to the rest of your Eclipse RCP application.
- Plug-in modules that should be initialized in certain sequence when starting your Eclipse RCP application.
- Use Log4J in your Eclipse RCP application instead of the frameworks error logging.
- Create a navigator tree view.
- Create nested JFace wizards.
- Use JFace utilities for very common tasks.
- Easily manage and use your applications icons and images: Simple handling of icons and images / Advanced icon handling using icon sets
- Provide tooltips for SWT elements, e.g. tree items, optional with icons.
- Use common utility classes for very common tasks.
- Launch external applications.
- Use XML utilities for very common tasks related to XML.