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Bug 313971

Summary:	Investigate "deep-linking" for Riena
Product:	[RT] Riena	Reporter:	Elias Volanakis <elias>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <riena.core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	312325
Bug Blocks:

Description Elias Volanakis

2010-05-21 15:29:29 EDT

E4 is getting a technology called "deep-linking", which allows URLs embedded in web pages to:

- start a local RCP application
- invoke code in a local RCP application (and if the app is not running, it can be started)

We should evaluate this technology for use in Riena.

Reference: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/e4-dev/msg02964.html

Comment 1 Elias Volanakis

2010-05-21 15:33:17 EDT

Interested parties: see also Bug 312325 and CQ 4081

Comment 2 Stefan Liebig

2011-08-02 08:27:24 EDT

I had a brief look at what I could find about this feature. My observations:
- the bugzilla mentioned in comment 1 is still in state NEW! What does that mean?
- there is a wiki entry to "deep linking" http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Deeplinking. This entry makes me feel "frightened". It mentions registry file entry (*.reg) that has to be "applied" in order to register a "launcher proxy", which is a headless RCP app. And so forth... 
- it is not clear to me if this is technique is widely adopted

However, I think that "deep linking" is an interesting feature and we should follow its progress.