Java Code Style: The Final Decision

On April 28, 2014, Posted by , In Common, By ,,,, , With 6 Comments

Isn’t it funny how the alleged most unremarkable things can lead to controversial discussions or sometimes even heated debates with hardened fronts? I witnessed on several occasions, for example, how the usage of the Java final keyword triggered quite passionate arguments. And for an outside observer this might have looked…

Mockito Templates for Eclipse

On February 10, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse,JUnit, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Mockito Templates for Eclipse

Sometimes I miss the forest for the trees – and that for a disturbingly long time. I just became aware of this once again recently, typing one of the more verbose mockito expressions for the umpteenth time. The statement in question was a doAnswer(Answer) construct which always feels a bit…

EclipseCon Europe — RAP Talk On-Line

On November 18, 2011, Posted by , In Eclipse, By ,,,,, , With 2 Comments

The last weeks were very exciting since I could talk about the new RAP OSGi integration feature (see I, II, III) on various occasions. It was amazing to see how the RAP community has evolved over the last years. While in the early days you always had to do the…

RAP/RWT-OSGi Integration III

On October 13, 2011, Posted by , In Eclipse,OSGi, By ,,,,, , With 1 Comment

The previous posts 1 about the new RWT-OSGi integration bundle of RAP 1.5 concentrated on the various possibilities of how to run RWT as Web-UI-Toolkit in OSGi environment. In this post I will discuss some ideas of how to use RWT and OSGi to build dynamic web applications. To do…

RAP/RWT-OSGi Integration II

On October 5, 2011, Posted by , In Eclipse,OSGi, By ,,,, , With 1 Comment

In my last post about the new RWT-OSGi integration bundle of RAP 1.5 I have promised to provide a little example of how to use RWT in combination with the ConfigurationAdmin service of OSGi. In this post I will keep that promise and show how to register RWT applications arbitrarily at…

RAP/RWT-OSGi Integration

On August 26, 2011, Posted by , In Eclipse,OSGi, By ,,,, , With 8 Comments

Motivation During my time as RAP technology lead I took care of some consulting projects using RAP/RCP in single sourcing fashion. Although this approach has proven very powerful to help people to bring their RCP applications to the web, I consider the workbench concept often too cumbersome if you are…