Chapter 4. Interacting with the User

In the last chapter, we looked at some of the basic JFace viewers that provide a representation of data. However, we need to interact with the user and we can do this in multiple ways, from responding to mouse clicks to processing data-intensive operations in the background.

In this chapter we will:

• Create a menu in response to a user popup
• Add a command and a handler in a menu
• Use progress managers to report work
• Add commands to the progress manager
• Show errors and deal with failure