Remote Application Platform

Ever wondered how you can create a p2 repository from an arbitrary bunch of pre-built Eclipse bundles and features?  OK, you might also be wondering why you would want to do that. Let me give you a ‘real world’ situation where I badly needed to package p2 repos.  On an RCP Project that I coached [...]

A few days before the start of EclipseCon Europe 2012, we are releasing version 0.8.0 of Tabris. If you have the chance to visit EclipseCon Europe, just ask us for a demo or visit our Tabris talk and workshop right away. Added support for camera and image picking After the video support in Tabris 0.7.0 [...]

In the second milestone of RAP v2.0 we introduced a new Client API. It allows as to distinguish between different clients (web client, native android client…) and handle their specific capabilities. We added a service provider interface Client that ... [More] can be acquired using the new method RWT.getClient(). Client implementations can provide different services. One of [...] [Less]

This post outlines the challenges we encountered when implementing video playback in a single-sourced [1] Eclipse RCP/ RAP [2] application. Our team at EclipseSource is developing medical software which runs both as a web application and an Eclipse ... [More] RCP application. Hospitals are using this tool as part of the patient’s briefing. During the briefing, the [...] [Less]

This year Tabris will be at EclipseCon Europe. Tabris is the mobile cross platform solution that connects the benefits of RAP based web applications with the native power and intuitivity of touch based mobile devices. At EclipseCon Europe you will have the chance not only to get the big picture about the connection between the [...]

During the last weeks the RAP team has been busy lifting RAP’s client-to-server communication to the JSON protocol. That was a lot of work, and we finished it just in time for Kepler M2. With this milestone, the migration to the new protocol is eventually complete. All communication uses JSON now, and no undocumented HTTP [...]

Just in time, the first service release for RAP 1.5 has been published on Friday. It adds a dozen bugfixes to RAP 1.5. We always backport fixes very carefully in order to maintain the stability of the release. Therefore, only critical or very obvious fixes have been included. So if you are running RAP 1.5, [...]

Lately I was talking with a colleague if it is possible to kickstart a RAP standalone “Hello World” example in less than a coffee break(*). Well it depends… on the content of your local Maven directory and/or your internet connection. To make this happen you should postpone getting your coffee for now. Just go to [...]

In RAP v1.5 we introduced markup support for several widgets. One of the most frequently asked questions about markup support is: “Why are my images not displaying?”. In this blog post I will give you a step-by-step guide on how to make your images available using markup. Save your images in your bundle source folder. [...]

On most of my customer projects that involved RAP, we had to adapt the look of the application to a Corporate Identity branding. In this blog I want to give a quick overview of the tools and options that we have in such situations. In addition, I want to add a few thoughts and comments [...]