Remote Application Platform

A while ago I introduced you to my Google Summer of Code 2010 project, the WAR Products. I really appreciate your participation with feedback and bugs. It showed me that there is a real need for this tooling, so I’m proud to announce that the WAR Products development will not continue in the RAP Project. You may think, [...]

Yesterday Amazon launched a new service called AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It’s basically a Tomcat hosting service. You can upload your WAR files via a web interface, to an instance of a Linux cloud image pre-configured with Tomcat. This is from the official Amazon description: AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an even easier way for you to [...]

Recently I played around a little with Tycho because we evaluated it for the use in the RTP project. As a test case, I decided to try to build a RAP application with Tycho. With building I mean compiling and packaging the artifacts into a WAR file in order to deploy them on a Tomcat or another [...]

Christmas is only a few days away and we at the RAP team wanted to show our appreciation to you, our community, for your active participation in setting directions for RAP and for RAP development.  As a small Christmas present, we’d like to give a preview of the next release so you don’t have to [...]

Your early Christmas present from EclipseSource: A custom-widget that displays, controls and reacts to a Google-Map. While there have been similar widgets before, this one is the first (as far as i now) that runs in RAP and RCP without any changes.    [ Download ] (You also need RAP 1.4M4.) Creating custom-widgets for RAP [...]

Hi, We’d like to know more about RAP in the wild. Please take a moment and answer the question that follows below. We will publish the results of this anonymous poll later on this blog, and we’ll use them to influence the direction of the research work of the Sovereign project. Thanks for your time. [...]

November is over now and last week I attended the last DemoCamp for the year. In this year’s November DemoCamp series I spoke at three events and with this post I’d like to present you with some impressions. Bonn, November 16th: The beginning… It was the first DemoCamp that was located in Bonn ever. So, [...]

Today’s a great day. The Eclipse Foundation accepted the proposal for the RTP Project. RTP stands for Runtime Packaging.  And here’s what it’s all about. Marcus Baker wrote an article called “Install Me“, which was published in the book “97 things a programmer should know“. On two pages he shows the reader exactly how important [...]

A few weeks ago, my colleague Ralf Sternberg, announced that RAP supports a JQuery integration. What we still needed to do was to create an example that shows how to integrate some JQuery stuff into RAP. Yesterday I took a little time to work on it. I used the JQueryUI Carousel widget as a base. [...]

One thing I like about November is the DemoCamps, and this year I spoke at two of them, Bonn and Munich. Both were great events where I had the chance to talk  about RAP. The DemoCamps are all about spreading the word about technology and both events did a great job. November is nearly over, [...]