1. Agile RCP
Presenter First using
Spring Dynamic Modules
Heiko Seeberger, metafinanz
© 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0 | March 20th, 2008 | www.metafinanz.de

2. Agile development of user interfaces
• Which process leading from requirements to UI code?
• How can UIs be unit-tested?
UI code Unit tests
Requirements
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

3. Presenter First architecture
Reference
Event
• MVP variant: Passive view. Presenter
• Model and view abstracted
as interfaces. IView IModel
• Unit-testing presenters by
mocking model and view.
MockView MockModel
PresenterTest
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

4. Presenter First process
• Requirements drive the design.
Presenter
User Story +onQuery()
The user can query for …
books by entering the title
in the query form … IView IModel
+getName() +getBooks()
… …
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

5. Presenter First on Eclipse RCP
• MVP triads managed by a Presenter
Spring application context.
• Spring Dynamic Modules View Model
integrates Spring into OSGi.
Spring application context
OSGi bundle
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

6. Presenter First on Eclipse RCP
• Plug into the workbench via Presenter
factories for views and editors.
View Model
views xPt
ViewPart
Factory
Spring application context
Workbench
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7. Demo – User story, view and model
User Story
By clicking “Next“ the user can
request a new random number
which is shown in a text field.
By clicking “Clear“ this text field
is cleared.
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

8. Demo – Presenter
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

9. Demo – Test Coverage
• Presenter 100% covered!
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

10. Demo – Spring configuration
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

11. Agile RCP
• Framework for agile development of UIs with RCP:
Based on standards like OSGi, Spring DM and MVP.
Already contains library for Presenter First on RCP.
Tooling and test support planned.
• Plans:
0.9 release in April (Eclipse Forum Europe).
Make Agile RCP open source.
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0

12. Thank you!
• For further information:
Visit our Agile RCP website at agilercp.metafinanz.de,
Join my session at Eclipse Forum Europe or
Contact me at heiko.seeberger@metafinanz.de.
Agile RCP - Presenter First using Spring Dynamic Modules | © 2008 by Heiko Seeberger; made available under the EPL v1.0