If you like the concept of perspectives and views in Eclipse, you probably wish you had something similiar in Spring-RCP. Part of it can be accomplished using VLDocking. Additionally I added the functionality to persist the view state on client exit, to present the user just the same layout on the next application start.

Sometimes one wants to modify the appearance of bean properties in when bound to the GUI. Spring-RCP offers mutiple ways to achieve this.

To build a classical 3-tier architecture, you can use AppFuse as a back end. This full-featured web-framework provides many time-saving features, additionally it's very easy to export the managers as webservice and use them as a backend to your Spring-RCP application.

To easily build a fully working backend for Spring with database access and services, you can use an AppFuse backend. As it's based on Spring, it is very easy to integrate with Spring-RCP.