Remote Application Platform

One of the bigger changes in the RAP 2.0 API is the introduction of client services. These are features that interact with the client, but aren’t directly related to the widget toolkit. Since there are now multiple types of clients that can be connected (mainly our default WebClient, Tabris for iOS and Tabris for Android), [...]

I presented our work on Tabris at  ”Eclipse Day @ Google” earlier this week. With Tabris you use Java to create native mobile applications for iOS and Android. My slides below provide a quick introduction: Follow this link for detailed information on Tabris. Thank you Eclipse Foundation and Google for organizing this event for the fourth year now!

In late 2010 we asked “How do you run your RAP application today ? (2010)“. In those days most installations were WAR deployments (>50%) running in a plain Tomcat/Jetty container or an application server (Poll results). I’m curious to see if the landscape of RAP installations has changed over the last two years… and would [...]

Last week Benjamin Wolff, a long-known RAP fellow, announced that he has just created an RWT plug-in for Grails. Grails is a ready-to-use web framework with some great featues such as a persistence layer with ORM, dependency injection, unit testing, and advanced web APIs. It comes with a command line that helps you create and [...]

RAP is approaching its second major release in its 6 year history, and major releases should be accompanied by major new functionality – at least this is our take on versioning. With RAP 2.0 we are changing the project name from Rich Ajax Platform to Remote Application Platform (RAP as a short name remains the [...]

The RAP team has been working hard over the last weeks and made another milestone build for RAP 2.0 available today. RAP 2.0 M3 contains a brand new event system implementation that allowed us to get rid of some old bugs and to attach listeners more precisely in the protocol. Many RAP developers will like [...]

Recently I started working at a headless client for RAP 2.0 with the following aims: Allow functional testing of RAP/RWT applications. Allow stress testing of RAP/RWT applications, working together with a performance test library. A secondary ... [More] requirement is to: Be similar enough to the SWTBot API so that the effort for testing single-sourced applications is [...] [Less]

Along with the release of Windows 8 also came the new Internet Explorer 10. (It has not yet been released for Windows 7.) While IE9 was an impressive (but overdue) technical improvement over IE8, IE10 is – naturally – a much smaller step forward. Significant for RAP are especially the improvements in CSS3 support, and [...]

With the latest RAP 2.0 milestone M2[1], you can run RAP based Web Application Bundles (WAB) with the unmodified RAP artifacts installed into your Virgo Jetty Server[2]. No more Eclipse buddy classloading required as noted in a previous post. Before version 2.0 M2, the RAP framework did not try to load configuration classes from the [...]

Recently, I developed a "user account" system for a customer's Eclipse RAP application. Here are a few do's and don'ts, which I learned in the process.