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Benjamin Pasero's Take on RCP, RSSOwl and Working With Mylar
RSSOwl was born about four years ago, because Benjamin Pasero, the creator of the popular feed reader, wanted to learn more about SWT! Pasero has now announced the RSSOwl 2.0. This version promises to be an RCP application, completely redesigned from the scratch. Pasero and another developer chose the Eclipse Rich Client Platform as framework and db4o as powerful database to store all the news.

RSSOwl 2 is really meant to be powerful enough to manage like 200 feeds and thousands of news like a good mail client will be able to, while ensuring that you do not lose the news that is interesting to you.

The original version was based on SWT, but Pasero says that the RCP adoption was pretty much straightforward. “We are now at a phase where we have to see what features of the RCP will be used in the future, like we decided to use the update manager, something I didn’t have before. The challenge for me now is to really get the benefit from the workbench for my users. Because RSSOwl is not an IDE, it is not an enterprise application, its not complex and huge; it was always lightweight and small,” concedes Pasero.

Pasero also talks about the possibility of integrating RSSOwl with Eclipse Mylar. He clarifies that RSS can be used not just for news, but also for tasks or events, and as such there are use cases for applications like Mylar, that are really enterprise applications and developer tools.

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