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RCPNews is a news-reading client that is built upon the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. As well as being available as a stand-alone product, it is also available as an installable feature into other Eclipse installations.
RCPNews currently supports RSS and will support Atom newsfeeds in the near future. Help is available as an optional download (which can be installed through the update site).
You can build the source code manually by checking it out of the source code repository. More information on how to obtain the source is provided at the repository page.
To install RCPNews into an existing version of Eclipse, add
http://www.rcpapps.org/update/ as an update site into
Eclipse. More information on how to do this is provided at the update
site. Note that update site URLs do not end in /index.html.
The RCPNews product can be installed by selecting the RCPNews Feature
from the update site. This will ensure that all components, including help, will be installed.
Once installed, RCPNews can be used by switching to the RCPNews
perspective. The views can also be docked in other perspectives if desired.
RCPNews can be launched as a stand-alone application with the Eclipse launcher, and
passing the -application org.rcpapps.rcpnews.application.Application as an argument.