vogella Eclipse code examples

Example projects for Eclipse RCP and plug-in development from the vogella.com website. The bundles are built with Tycho (pomless) against the Eclipse 4.42 integration builds and published as one p2 update site. The integration builds are needed for the SWT API used by com.vogella.rcp.svg.currentcolor; the target moves to the 2026-12 release once it is available.

Examples

Project	Shows
com.vogella.css.fonts	Live CSS editor showing font-weight, font-size and face resolution with the bundled Inter font (OFL), intended for Windows; start it from css-fonts.product
com.vogella.e4.model.persistence	Persisting and restoring the Eclipse 4 application model
com.vogella.eclipse.dndcontrols	Drag and drop of controls with SWT and Forms in an E4 part
com.vogella.eclipse.e4.coreexpression	Core expressions in an E4 application
com.vogella.jdt.quickfix	Contributing a JDT quick fix
com.vogella.jface.viewer	JFace viewer, including changing the text size
com.vogella.plugin.markers	Adding resource markers from an E4 handler
com.vogella.rcp.databinding	JFace data binding with converters and validation
com.vogella.rcp.editor.example	A simple text editor contribution
com.vogella.rcp.jface.translation	Translating JFace wizards at runtime
com.vogella.rcp.perspective.addpart	Adding a part to a perspective with a model fragment
com.vogella.rcp.perspective.plugin	Contributing a perspective from a plug-in
com.vogella.rcp.svg.currentcolor	Setting the currentColor of SVG icons with SVGFileFormat.setCurrentColor from a -currentColor program argument or a login dialog; start it from svg-currentcolor.product
com.vogella.swt.fonts.roboto	Loading a custom font (Roboto) in SWT
com.vogella.swt.widgets	Custom SWT widgets
org.eclipse.jface.nl1	Fragment with JFace translations

Requirements

• Java 25
• Maven 3.9

Build

mvn clean verify

The p2 update site is created in com.vogella.examples.updatesite/target/repository (also zipped next to it). It contains the feature com.vogella.examples.feature with all example bundles.

Import into Eclipse

Import the projects with File > Import > Existing Projects into Workspace. Open target-platform/target-platform.target and click "Set as Active Target Platform".

Naming convention

New projects use the com.vogella prefix followed by the area they demonstrate, for example jface, swt, rcp and the like. Add them as a module in the root pom.xml and as a plug-in in com.vogella.examples.feature/feature.xml.