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=={{anchor|RCP}} Rich client platform==
Eclipse provides the [[rich client platform]] (RCP) for developing general-purpose applications.

The following components constitute the rich client platform:
* [[Equinox (OSGi)|Equinox OSGi]] – a standard bundling framework
* Core platform – boot Eclipse, run [[Plug-in (computing)|plug-ins]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}
* [[Standard Widget Toolkit]] (SWT) – a portable [[widget toolkit]]
* [[JFace]] – viewer classes to bring [[model view controller]] programming to SWT, file buffers, text handling, text editors
* Eclipse Workbench – views, editors, perspectives, wizards

Examples of rich client applications based on Eclipse are:
* [[IBM Notes]] 8 and 9
* Attachmate-Novell [[NetIQ]] Designer for Identity Manager
* [[Apache Directory]] Studio
* [[Remote Component Environment]]
* [[DBeaver]], a SQL client software
* Portfolio Performance<ref>{{Cite web|title=Portfolio Performance|url=https://www.portfolio-performance.info/en/|access-date=2020-12-16|publisher=Portfolio Performance|archive-date=13 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213135248/https://www.portfolio-performance.info/en/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[UDig]], a GIS software
* [[AnyLogic]], a multimethod simulation modeling tool