Remote Application Platform

While most of us are busy with that latest bits of the Indigo release, some have the joy to work on one of the next new features in RAP: support for high availablity clusters. Let me briefly mark out what we mean by clustering support and what we don’t. Load balancing clusters are used if [...]

A few weeks ago I showed you how easy it is to integrate jQuery into RAP using the browser widget. I’d like to show you another example of what can be integrated. Last time I created a carousel widget; this time the demo is something smaller but still really cool. Yesterday I came across a [...]

If you use Eclipse to develop OSGi based applications you may use the OSGi Launcher provided by the PDE Tooling. It’s cool tooling because it gives you full control over the OSGi instance to be launched.  You can choose the OSGi framework (e.g. Equinox or Felix), select the bundles to install and much more. But [...]

Support for key bindings (bug 282449) has been one of the most requested features for RAP. So I’m happy to say that since 1.4 M5, RAP implements the JFace key bindings API, provides the org.eclipse.ui.bindings extension point, and enables most of the default workbench key bindings. As a result, you can now use most* of the [...]

RAP already offers advanced styling features including customizable cross-browser gradients, rounded borders and animations. We now complete this feature set by introducing advanced, configurable shadows, giving your RAP application a modern, subtle ... [More] 3D-look. Unlike other frameworks, RAP does not rely on pre-rendered images to create those effects. Instead it does all the rendering itself based [...] [Less]

Only a few days remain until EclipseCon 2011 starts. We are eagerly anticipating our chance to present you an introduction to our ongoing research project Sovereign. The talk, “Migrating Java Threads to Improve Availability of Web Applications” ... [More] demonstrates an innovative solution how RAP applications can run on a cluster for failsafe operation. After our first [...] [Less]

Over the last few days I’ve read many blogs from folks who are speaking at EclipseCon next week in Santa Clara. Everytime I find it really interesting to hear about the ideas behind the talks. So, with this post I want to show you what you can expect from the EclipseSource folks at EclipseCon. First [...]

A few weeks ago Google announced their WindowBuilder contribution to the Eclipse Foundation. The WindowBuilder was originally created by Instantiations and moved to Google after they swallowed Instantiations back in 2010. Anyway, the WindowBuilder is ... [More] a first class visual editor for creating UIs and will be maintained by Google. It contains an Editor for three [...] [Less]

When you face the task of building a Server-Side Equinox or a RAP application (which is just a Server-Side Equinox application) you need to choose a build system from a fairly diverse palette. This choice is never easy because every build system has its pros and cons. In the end it comes down to which [...]

Thanks for participating in our survey “How do you run your RAP application today?“  The poll was online for one and a half months.  During this period we collected around 150 replies. With positive replies from more than 60% of the respondents, war deployment is the most commonly used deployment scenario. Most are running on [...]