on Feb 21st, 2009The RAP book finally arrived
This is an exciting moment for me – the first book about Eclipse RAP has now finally arrived in print.
“Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform – Bringing Rich Clients to the Web” by Fabian Lange
A book is always a great endorsement for a technology. Having an author with no affiliation to the producers of the technology is even better. Nevertheless, when I read Fabians message that the book was now in print – and it had not worked out that one of the RAP committers acted as a reviewer – I felt a little bit uneasy. After the book finally arrived and having a look at it I must admit for no good reason 
. I stumbled upon the usage of the word component in a way that seems rather uncommon, but it all makes sense if you take it as “ui component”. I have not followed the examples, but I am sure that Fabian did a great job there too.
The RAP book at Amazon
The book touches all relevant aspects of RAP, and provides a concise guide for getting started with RAP. It includes a section on single sourcing RCP and RAP applications with some really valuable tips. It also touches on styling RAP applications and finishes with the deployment on application servers. With its volume of 150 pages it can’t provide a lot of depth, but it is really a great book to get started with RAP. RCP Developers with requirements to make their apps available in browsers and developers interested in evaluating RAP going beyond “Hello World” will get a really good bang for the buck. And the book is pretty much up to date with the current 1.2 developments.
Just in case anybody is interested in complementing Fabians book with an “Advanced development with Eclipse RAP” or “The Eclipse RAP compendium” – you should feel encouraged and we might be able to help. How about you Fabian?
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Thanks a lot Jochen for your kind words. Haven’t had your new blog at eclipsesource in my roll – shame on me.
As you know I am also not perfectly happy with the creation process, but am relieved that you like the book. My time with RAP is limited at the moment, and also I think the new company eclipsesource has much better experts to write a field guide to e4, being rcp&rap in one box
I will stay tuned and update my examples for 1.2, but I fear that I will have less examples of single sourcing problems
Dear friend
Excellent book!
Unhappyly in the Brazil nobody likes here to make development in RAP, RCP and GMF, very difficult to obtain work in these technologies.
You have luck to live and to work outside of the Brazil, the possibilities are enormous to obtain diverse chances.
Here in the Brazil already I tried to show for diverse companies these technologies, them very find difficult to work with this.
But I never intend to lose the hope in working with this. It would like to be Member and Committer of the Eclipse very, but never I obtained. Good luck to that they work with these technologies, that always continue if perfecting in what it likes.