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M6 brings markup text support to RAP
The RAP 1.5 M6 milestone build is packed with new features, especially for Trees and Tables. But most notably, you can now use HTML markup in Tables, Trees, and also in Labels: Just enable the markup...
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The new Application API in RAP
RAP 1.5 includes a new API to define and start RAP applications programmatically (up to RAP 1.4, this was only possible using Eclipse extensions or web.xml properties). With this new API, RAP can also...
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Creating p2 composite repositories on the command line
Composite repositories make it easy to maintain different versions of a software in a single repository. The idea is to have one public p2 repository that delegates to a number of child repositories....
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RAP 1.5 is Available
We’re proud to announce that a new RAP release is now available for download. Together with Eclipse Juno, RAP has just published it’s version 1.5.0. RAP 1.5 comes with cool new features such as HTML...
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Eclipse 4 Applications on RAP
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...
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Using Eclipse databinding with Felix
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...
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RAP 1.5.1 released
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...
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RAP 2.0 M2 – JSON protocol migration complete
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...
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RAP 2.0 M3 is available
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...
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RAP on Grails
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...
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RAP 2.0 Countdown (1/5)
After more than six years of RAP 1.x, we will release version 2.0 on February 11. As the version number suggests, there are some substantial changes in this release. During the last few days before the...
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RAP 2.0 Countdown (2/5)
There’s only one week to go until the RAP 2.0 release. In this short blog series, I’d like to introduce you to the most important changes. Besides the new protocol, the main theme in RAP 2.0 is the...
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RAP 2.0 Countdown (3/5)
RAP 2.0 is approaching and I want to explain the most important changes in this short blog series. The key innovation of RAP 2.0 is its support for alternative clients. Today I’d like to introduce you...
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RAP 2.0 Countdown (4/5)
While we are waiting for the RAP 2.0 release to be published on Monday, I’m introducing you to the most important changes in this major release. For today, I’ve picked a slightly trickier part of RAP:...
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RAP 2.0 Countdown (5/5)
Today’s our big day: RAP 2.0 is being released. Here’s my last post in this RAP 2.0 series. In my first post, I wrote about the new JSON protocol and how it connects the half objects on client and...
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RAP 2.0 Launched Today
The Eclipse RAP Project has just launched its long-awaited 2.0 version. With this release, the project has changed its name to “Remote Application Platform” to indicate the transition from a browser...
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A Fast and Minimal JSON Parser for Java
In the RAP project, reading and writing JSON are critical operations, since the server processes and creates JSON messages for a large number of clients at a high rate. For this reason, we need...
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RAP 2.1 Released
As every year in June, the RAP project has released a brand new version together with the annual Eclipse release. Last year, we shipped RAP 1.5 with Eclipse Juno, this time we’re already onto Release...
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Run UI tests in the background on Linux
When you run JUnit tests that open windows and dialogs, all these windows pop up on your screen like fireworks, making your desktop unusable for minutes. If you’re lucky enough to work on Linux,...
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RAP 2.2 is available
Looking back on another eventful year for the RAP project, today we’re proud to publish the results in a new release, RAP 2.2. Let’s have a look at the highlights: Client-side Scripting We started off...
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