Re: [Ikvm-developers] eclipse/rcp & IKVM

[Jeroen F. <je...@su...>]

Hello Sebastian,

I did some work with Mainsoft to be able to compile Eclipse with ikvmc (to get acceptable performance) and the goal of that was to get their RCP application to run on .NET and I think they're happy with the result (they also use NGEN to pre-compile the managed code to native).

Once you've got that up and running, writing plugins in C# shouldn't be hard.

The blog post should get you started:
http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=1aecaf4e-24c0-4f96-861b-f3b4473c7525

Regards,
Jeroen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Good [mailto:seb...@pa...]
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:47 AM
> To: ikv...@li...
> Subject: [Ikvm-developers] eclipse/rcp & IKVM
> 
> Hello all--
> 
> We are (being asked to) consider using  Eclipse/RCP as a UI framework,
> but all of our application logic, data objects, and existing UI is
> written in C++, FORTRAN, or C#. While I understand there is a
> reasonable community built up around C++ development under Eclipse/RCP,
> I don't see much about .NET plugins. I know that there was some
> discussion in the IKVM community some time ago about running Eclipse
> itself under RCP. While this may or may not be the best way to
> accomplish the goal of deploying .NET code in the Eclipse environment,
> this seemed like just about the best mailing list to ask the question
> on.
> 
> How can I redeploy my .NET applications under Eclipse/RCP without re-
> writing them? Is IKVM part of the answer?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sebastian Good