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Now that Eclipse 3.0 is almost out I am looking at writing applications using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). I decided to convert the database monitor tool I blogged about yesterday in to a RCP application. I wanted it to appear as an icon in the 'System Tray' (it is actually should be called notification area :-)).

So I googled out a solution. Again it turns out I can do it with four lines of code.

Tray tray = display.getSystemTray();
TrayItem item = new TrayItem(tray, SWT.NONE);
item.setToolTipText("SWT Rocks!");
item.setImage(new Image(display, "red.png"));

A complete working example of this can be found here. This example also shows how to add menus to the icon. Like the tool tip says SWT rocks! :-)