Ralf Sternberg

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. For this reason, we need something fast for this job. When we switched to JSON, we included the org.json parser, which is reasonably small but not [...]

The Eclipse RAP Project has just launched its long-awaited 2.0 version. With this release, the project has changed its name to “Remote Application Platform” to indicate the transition from a browser platform to a universal platform for remote applications. RAP 2.0 supports alternative clients and has new APIs to distinguish between clients, access client-specific features, and [...]

Today’s our big day: RAP 2.0 is being released. Here’s my last post in this RAP 2.0 series. In my first post, I wrote about the new JSON protocol and how it connects the half objects on client and server. The question is, can you leverage this protocol for custom add-ons? You can, using the [...]

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. For today, I’ve picked a slightly trickier part of RAP: the server push. RAP has built-in server push support, and a brand new push API in 2.0. Let me [...]

RAP 2.0 is approaching and I want to explain the most important changes in this short blog series. The key innovation of RAP 2.0 is its support for alternative clients. Today I’d like to introduce you to the new Client API that lets you find out which client is currently connected. This interface can also [...]

There’s only one week to go until the RAP 2.0 release. In this short blog series, I’d like to introduce you to the most important changes. Besides the new protocol, the main theme in RAP 2.0 is the consolidation of our APIs. After six years of RAP 1.x, it was time for a cleanup. In this [...]

After more than six years of RAP 1.x, we will release version 2.0 on February 11. As the version number suggests, there are some substantial changes in this release. During the last few days before the release, I will guide you through the most important changes in RAP 2.0. It’s not so much about new [...]

Last week Benjamin Wolff, a long-known RAP fellow, announced that he has just created an RWT plug-in for Grails. Grails is a ready-to-use web framework with some great featues such as a persistence layer with ORM, dependency injection, unit testing, and advanced web APIs. It comes with a command line that helps you create and [...]

The RAP team has been working hard over the last weeks and made another milestone build for RAP 2.0 available today. RAP 2.0 M3 contains a brand new event system implementation that allowed us to get rid of some old bugs and to attach listeners more precisely in the protocol. Many RAP developers will like [...]