Remote Application Platform

Tabris has made a big step forward in this 0.7 release. We included many improvements and fixed requested by our users. And we also got some nice new features… New and Noteworthy Base Technology Update to RAP 2.0 M1 The most important change in this release is the support for RAP 2.0 M1. This change [...]

Update: It turned out that there is already a solution to the problem described here. The bundle org.eclipse.equinox.supplement exports the packages needed by equinox.common. This bundle is available from http://download.eclipse.org/equinox/. If you ... [More] want to run Eclipse databinding, simply inlude this bundle and org.eclipse.equinox.common and you’re set. You can disregard the solution explained below. Thanks Pascal [...] [Less]

Last month I wrote a post on the new look and feel of e4 and helped all those to revert to the old style that did not like the new theme:  Eclipse 4 Theme – ‘New’ vs ‘Classic’. This time I am writing to help developers move back to the old classic theme of RAP. Developers [...]

Many developers still catch Throwable in their try/catch statements. Is this a good idea? I don’t think so. As all of you know, Throwable is a generic superclass for all exception and errors in Java. As exceptions are meant to be caught, errors in more cases are not. If we take a look at the [...]

I love Android, but its default browser is terrible. For relatively simple, static websites it’s okay, but i’m talking about complex HTML(5)/JavaScript applications here. And while Safari for iOs is considerably faster, it’s has almost as many quirks ... [More] and bugs.  A great alternative to native apps or Flash this ain’t (yet). My frustration comes from [...] [Less]

Eclipse 4 is the new platform for application development in Eclipse. We already succeeded to run e4 applications on RAP two years ago, but then we got sidetracked by other efforts. Now that Eclipse 4.2 has become the primary development stream in Juno, it’s time to have another look at the topic. Last Friday I [...]

It’s time for a comprehensive update after the well received Tabris 0.6 release. This time we not only provide the usual set of bugfixes and performance improvements after a .0 release, we’ve also added support for the SWT List and ProgressBar widgets. All the features described below apply to both the iOS and Android clients if not [...]

This post shows how to develop RAP applications with Virgo. The first part guides you through the setup for a Virgo Server instance and how to extend it to become a RAP runtime. The second part is a short walkthrough of how to create a Hello World RAP application using the new RAP OSGi integration. [...]

All of you who are using SWT/RWT Tree or Table widget, know their limitations pretty well. Sooner or later you’ll look for a way to add check boxes in multiple columns, group columns and show/hide them dynamically or put some information in a Table footer. Nebula Grid widget fulfills all these requirements. That’s why we [...]

   Packaging a customized IDE for the benefit of your users. Recently we released a developer preview of Tabris, our new mobile, cross-platform, server-side, app framework. Using Tabris as an example, I’d like to show you that with Yoxos, it is just a matter of minutes in order to define and publish a complete Eclipse-based [...]