[MrDzoneEclipse]

Hi,

I am planning on developing a RCP application to act as an administration tool for a JMS provider implementation. The JMS provider has an Admin API which applications can use to query the status of the JMS server, e.g Number of details of queues and topics, system resource utilisation, JMS client connections etc.

I envisage that I would have a single instance of my RCP app, connected to many JMS servers concurrently, each connection being an instance of the administration API connection. I would structure this in RCP as a tree view allowing lists of JMS servers, and drill down to queue and topics etc. Additionally I would have table view showing the properties of the selected objects.

To me it sounds like this should be a good fit into RCP, eclipse would provide the majority of the GUI framework etc and the code I need to add would merely be the trivial query JMS administration API and return the details which would be displayed on the screen.

My question is. I am new to development in Eclipse and I have read about many different frameworks / plugins etc. What would be the best overall approach to my issue, what Eclipse design pattern is best, what plugins or exising components would you use. I am more than happy to do the reading, it would be good to know that I am reading about the right stuff. Also what open source Eclipse RCP project would use a design most similar to what I should use?

Thanks in advance.