Interested in the Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) but somehow missing the courage to take the first steps? This “Introduction to RAP” by Chris Aniszczyk and Benjamin Muskalla will give you a head start.

The article is the first of a two-part series and covers the following topics:

• Downloading and Installing RAP
• Launching a RAP application
• Differences of RAP to GWT
• A side-by-side comparison of the RAP Hello World / Mail examples with the sources of their RCP counterparts

The article includes a .zip archive with three sample RAP projects. The forthcoming second part will cover some more advanced topics like theming, branding and custom widgets.

To article – Part 1

To article – Part 2

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This 5-page article, by RAP committers Benjamin Muskalla and Ralf Sternberg, introduces the Rich Ajax Platform Project (RAP) and explains why it is the rich internet application framework of choice for Eclipse RCP developers.

Read the RAP article (pdf) to learn more about:
 

• Bringing an Eclipse RCP application to the web
• Getting started with the Rich Ajax Platform
• RAP’s inner workings and a comparison between SWT and RWT
• Customizing the look and feel of your application with Theming
• Scalability and performance of RAP

The article was originally published in the German “Eclipse Magazin“.

Image: (c) Copyright 2006, DerGrafischer/photocase.de

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