* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on building a vanilla application with Eclipse We’ve heard about the Rich Client Platform capabilities in Eclipse for building desktop applications. We installed the latest release, Eclipse 2.1.2, and successfully built a few of the sample projects. But we can’t figure out how to remove all the programming menus and extra windows that we don’t need in the application. Can we build a vanilla application with Eclipse without all the IDE trappings?The RCP implementation is not part of the Eclipse 2.X releases, but is available in the Eclipse 3.0 “stream stable,” “integration” and “nightly integration” builds listed below the latest release link on the Eclipse download site. You can install multiple versions of Eclipse on one system simply by unpacking them in separate directories.A good resource for RCP documentation and examples is http://www.eclipsepowered.org. A three-part tutorial on that site explains how to configure the Eclipse development environment to produce desktop applications free of the IDE components and menu items.The “Nick Edgar’s Browser example” provides a richer demonstration than the basic tutorial and delivers a nice built-in browser component for your own application. Related content news Dell provides $150M to develop an AI compute cluster for Imbue Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI. By Elizabeth Montalbano Nov 29, 2023 4 mins Generative AI news DRAM prices slide as the semiconductor industry starts to decline TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4. By Sam Reynolds Nov 29, 2023 3 mins Flash Storage Technology Industry news analysis Cisco, AWS strengthen ties between cloud-management products Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say. By Michael Cooney Nov 28, 2023 4 mins Network Management Software Cloud Computing opinion Is anything useful happening in network management? Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see. By Tom Nolle Nov 28, 2023 7 mins Generative AI Network Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe