Ralf is a software engineer with a history as Eclipse committer and project lead.
In recent years, he devoted himself to JavaScript technologies and helped pulling off the Tabris.js project.
Ralf holds a Master’s degree from the University of Tübingen.
Today, we’re proud and happy to announce the release of Tabris.
The Tabris.js 2.0 release is now less than a week away (July 18).
Tabris.js 2.0 is just two weeks away, and the development team is taking this ramp down time to reflect on the release and highlight the features we’re really excited about.
There have been many notable changes to the Tabris.js codebase since Beta 2, and today we are happy to present the first release candidate of Tabris.
The latest version of JavaScript (ES2015, or commonly called ES6) is packed with modern features, including classes, lambda expressions (“arrow functions”), block scoping, template strings, and much more.
Some time ago we’ve created a draft for a Chart widget for RAP, based on the famous D3.
When you need rich text editing in a RAP application, things are getting easier.
Some languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, are written from right to left.
The dynamic typing in JavaScript allows for more flexibility, but it comes at the price of weaker tool support.
Imagine you’ve just published a new version of your app when you discover a critical bug that will render the app unusable for half of your user base.
This week, the third major version of RAP, the Eclipse Remote Application Platform, has been released.
Today, the RAP project delivers the final milestone build on the way to RAP 3.
When you test components of a RAP application, you have to simulate the environment that RAP UI code normally runs in.
Warning! This article is outdated and might not represent the current state of Tabris.
Often when I use SWT templates in a presentation, some people look amazed, so I thought it’s worth sharing.
When you build jars that are supposed to work with a specific JRE version, it’s not sufficient to set the correct compiler level.
If you still find yourself defining methods like this public String[] getParameters(); in an interface, you should think again.
Yes, we love building modular web applications, if they just were easier to deploy on a server!
Looking back on another eventful year for the RAP project, today we’re proud to publish the results in a new release, RAP 2.
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.
Earlier this year I’ve introduced Minimal JSON, a slim and fast Java library for reading and writing JSON.
As every year in June, the RAP project has released a brand new version together with the annual Eclipse release.
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.
Today’s our big day: RAP 2.0 is being released. Here’s my last post in this RAP 2.
The Eclipse RAP Project has just launched its long-awaited 2.
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.
RAP 2.0 is approaching and I want to explain the most important changes in this short blog series.
After more than six years of RAP 1.x, we will release version 2.
The RAP team has been working hard over the last weeks and made another milestone build for RAP 2.
During the last weeks the RAP team has been busy lifting RAP’s client-to-server communication to the JSON protocol.
Just in time, the first service release for RAP 1.5 has been published on Friday.
In Java, every object has a method hashCode that is simple to understand but still it’s sometimes forgotten or misused.
Update: It turned out that there is already a solution to the problem described here.
Eclipse 4 is the new platform for application development in Eclipse.
We’re proud to announce that a new RAP release is now available for download.
Composite repositories make it easy to maintain different versions of a software in a single repository.
RAP 1.5 includes a new API to define and start RAP applications programmatically (up to RAP 1.
The RAP 1.5 M6 milestone build is packed with new features, especially for Trees and Tables.
Besides all the Java code in the RAP project, we also have more than 250 JavaScript files which total up to 75k lines of code.
In the RAP framework, the widgets in a website are remotely controlled by the web server.
If you’re interested in the latest news on RAP, consider joining us at EclipseCon Europe next week in Ludwigsburg.
Update 2: The new interfaces have been renamed again in RAP 1.
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One of the new things in RAP 1.4 is the FileUpload widget in RWT, that replaces the old Upload widget from the sandbox.
Support for key bindings (bug 282449) has been one of the most requested features for RAP.
Another milestone build on the way to RAP 1.4 is available: RAP 1.
After another 6 weeks of working hard towards the Helios Release, we are one step closer.
Here’s a nice Helios feature that comes in handy when you often work with multiple workspaces simultaneously (as we recommend for developing single source application with RCP and RAP).
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We try hard to enable a “sexy” look and feel for Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) applications.
Enabling RCP applications to work with different locales is an essential requirement for server-side Eclipse setups.
Did you notice that two out of the three finalists for the Eclipse Community Awards in the category “Best Commercial Equinox Applications” are based on RAP?
The Eclipse RAP project has set out to realize the idea of “single sourcing”, i.