[gef-dev] GEF5 with e4 RCP and Tycho

[Kenneth Keefe <kjkeefe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a large commercial application that used to be Eclipse RCP 3.x with GEF 3.x. I've transitioned it to a pure e4 RCP application and I'm trying to make it work with the latest GEF 5. I have been struggling with JavaFX and GEF 5 for a while now. To try and work the problem, I set out to create a small working example that can help me and hopefully others understand how to configure an e4 application with GEF 5. I also have a subsequent goal of building the whole thing with a headless Tycho build.

I am currently stuck and I hope to get some help to make this proof of concept application work. You can check it out here: https://github.com/kjkeefe/e4gef5shapes

The README explains how to get it imported and running (although it is broken with a javafx problem). The README also shows the current sticking point.

Please let me know if you have any questions or ideas for how to improve this example. If you can help just get me past the current error, I can spend some more cycles on the next steps.

Thanks,

Ken