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You can now download RAP 2.1 M2, the final milestone of RAP before the 2.1 (Kepler) release in June. This milstone adds quite a few nice features like bézier curves for Canvas, background-position and -repeat for CSS theming, and (especially) improved multi-tab browsing: It is now possible to host multiple UI-Sessions within the same HTTP-Session, [...]

Today we are proud to release Tabris 1.0. If you have not followed us so far you probably don’t know what Tabris is. Let me put it in one sentence: Tabris is the first Java-Toolkit for the cross-platform development of native mobile Apps. It enables you to write iOS and Android Apps completely in Java with [...]

Today I’d like to present Tabris 0.11.0. This build marks the last public milestone before the 1.0 release. From my point of view this milestone is a breakthrough for cross-platform mobile development in Java. We have managed to abstract common mobile navigation patterns into a Java API. In addition to this we have added support [...]

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 [...]