Eclipse Rich Clients have become a powerful platform of developing professional desktop applications with the eclipse rcp core platform plugins providing most basic tasks like GUI etc. The application developer can thus concentrate majority of his focus on the main application logic, rather than worrying about the UI etc. This is an introductory talk explaining the architecture and benefits of eclipse RCP and how to build a basic rich client application. You will also learn how to leverage some core eclipse plugins in order to do the housekeeping activities like update management, help, with almost no coding effort.