A look ahead at RAP

What is new now and willbe noteworthy in the future

Ralf Sternberg, RAP Team Lead © 2011, EclipseSource

The Rich Ajax Platform

• Running RCP applications in a web browser• Single sourcing

RAP 1.3 Most Noteworty Graphics context (GC): drawing in the browser with SWT API

Browser history supportDrag and drop

New theming / styling features: Rounded borders, gradients, sliding and fading animations, semi-transparency

Completed our coverage of APIs:JFace 3.6, Forms 3.6, cheat sheets, control decoration, and lots of additional SWT methods

Collaboration with other Projects

• EMF• Riena• MAT• Virgo• redView

A new Tree widget• themeable expand icons• row hover effect• full VIRTUAL support

• alternating row colors• row colors• cell colors• SWT.FULL_SELECTION

New Default Theme

More 1.4 Plan items

• Update SWT, JFace, Workbench• Key binding support• Improved mobile devices support• Non-native scrollbars• Theming improvements• ...

Historyof

RAP

Where do we stand?

Lots of features added, developed extremely quickly

Technically:• Sufficient coverage of SWT• Single sourcing works• Powerful theming

Project and Community:• Simultaneous release• Growing and very active community• Collaboration with other Eclipse projects

RAP - the Eclipse web app framework?

What is left to do?

Features• Draw2D• StyledText ...

Future directions• Challenges?• other web frameworks• Web 2.0 trends

Stabilizing the Client

RAP is a Web App Platform

Theming

Shadows

Theming

Tab Folders

Native Scrollbars?

Hackability, Mashability

• Use mashups in RAP• Use JQuery etc. for custom widgets• Embed RAP application in Websites• Define a usable API for custom widgets

Custom widgets

Custom Widgets

• Knowledge required:• RWT request lifecycle• JavaScript• qooxdoo 0.7.4 API (modified subset)• Client-side RWT code

• Hacks involved• flushing queues• redirecting events• listening for DOM insertion

→ We need some documented API on the client

New devices

RAP on the IPad

Android?Blackberry?Windows phone?MeeGo?...

Improve support for mobile platforms

• lightweight and modular client library

• fix known issues

support for alternative clients

RAP Protocol?

Request: HTTP Parameters

Response: JavaScript

Alternative clients

Well defined protocolbased on JSON

Proof-of-concept: IPod client using iAd JavaScript library

native widgets!

RAP 2.0 will be ...nicer    faster        more extendable            more stable

... join us at the      RAP BoF

stay tuned:www.eclipse.org/rapwww.eclipsesource.com/blogs/@eclipsesource

Resources

IPad photo by JaredEarlehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredearle/4675262184/sizes/m/in/photostream/CC-by-nc-sa 2.0

Web 2.0 Tag Cloud by Markus Angermeierhttp://kosmar.de/archives/2005/11/11/the-huge-cloud-lens-bubble-map-web20/via http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Web20en.png&filetimestamp=20070425070135CC-by-sa 2.0

Tab folder screenshotshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/guspim/2944368439/sizes/o/in/photostream/CC-by-sa 2.0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/guspim/448649435/sizes/o/in/photostream/CC-by-sa 2.0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/guspim/417451390/sizes/o/in/photostream/CC-by-sa 2.0