EclipseCon Europe — RAP Talk On-Line
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…
Democamp Slides
For those who are interested I’ve uploaded the slides of my presentations at the eclipse democamps in bonn and munich. Thanks to Matthias, Jonas and Maximilian for organizing the events and giving me an opportunity to talk about the possibilties given with the new RWT OSGi integration bundle available in…
The RAP Tooling has Offspring
I would like to use the opportunity to point you to a feature of RAP that is around for some time now but has gone almost unnoticed so far. The RAP tooling has grown by yet another launch configuration. With the RWT Application Launcher you can run RWT applications with…
RAP/RWT-OSGi Integration III
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
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
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…
Refactoring RAP/RWT to Remove Class Variables
Lately I have started with the first of a set of RAP refactorings to ease the task of using RWT (RAP Widget Toolkit) as standalone widget library for web applications. With the term “standalone” I do not only refer to the possibility of running RWT in a standard servlet container without…