Let's familiarize ourselves with the Spring RCP. New life seems to have been blowing into this project: after almost two years of hiatus, the 1.0.0 release came out a few months ago. Let's leave aside the question about its direction and so on and, instead, let's look purely at the technology itself to see exactly what it offers. In that light, I've made available a simple plugin for NetBeans IDE that provides samples and templates to get things started. Below, I walk through a basic scenario using the plugin. However, even those who are not NetBeans users could learn a lot about Spring RCP by reading the steps in this tutorial and the explanations that accompany them.

Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.