Thanks for participating in our survey “How do you run your RAP application today?“  The poll was online for one and a half months.  During this period we collected around 150 replies.

With positive replies from more than 60% of the respondents, war deployment is the most commonly used deployment scenario. Most are running on Tomcat/Jetty (39%). Every fourth installation of a RAP application is run on plain Equinox with embedded Jetty (26%).  Following quite far behind there are a few installations that are running RAP on a Virgo Web Server/Virgo Kernel and some home-brewed launch scripts.

At EclipseCon 2011, the Sovereign Project will present the latest on our ongoing research on clustering RAP in the talk, “Migrating Java Threads to Improve Availability of Web Applications“.

Currently we are targeting plain Equinox and Virgo Kernel installations. As a result of this poll, we’ll stretch our feelers to war deployment and the Virgo Web Server. It’s great to have your input for the project.

Tags: rap, sovereign, war deployment

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We’d like to know more about RAP in the wild. Please take a moment and answer the question that follows below. We will publish the results of this anonymous poll later on this blog, and we’ll use them to influence the direction of the research work of the Sovereign project.

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How do you run your RAP application today?

War deployment in a plain Servlet Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

War deployment in an application server (JBoss, Glassfish, …)

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Tags: equinox, jetty, paxrunner, rap, sovereign, tomcat, war deployment

Please note: This post is outdated. Please read this post and do not follow the install instructions in this one.

A few weeks ago I presented you my GSoC 2010 project. The idea was to make Equinox/RAP WAR deployment easier. And yes, it was a real pain to create .war files for an Equinox/RAP application. About 215 deployment related threads on the RAP newsgroup speak for themselves. But the pain is over now, and I think I can say,  “Mission accomplished”.

I want to introduce you to a new concept called WAR Products. They are similar to Eclipse Products but much more lightweight. All you have to do to export a RAP application is to create a .warproduct based on a working launch configuration and press ‘export’. The exported .war file is ready to deploy. There is a function included that validates your .war file content before you’ve exported it. If you don’t believe me,  watch the screencast below and see for yourself.

You can use the tooling right now, but please keep in mind that we are still polishing. The final goal is to contribute it back to PDE, but there are still a few things to do before we make the contribution.  One of those items is to get your initial feedback so when you use the WAR Products tooling, please be sure submit your feature requests or file bugs and help us to continue to improve the tooling.

Here is what you need to do to use the WAR Products tooling:

1. Install the tooling from this repository into your IDE: http://download.eclipsesource.com/~hstaudacher/warproducts/3.7
2. Set up your target. You need to add RAP 1.4 M5 or the Server-Side Equinox SDK.

Again, comments, bugs and feature requests are appreciated!

At this point I want to thank some people. First of all, Rüdiger Herrmann for great mentoring and the whole RAP team for all the nice evenings in the beer garden. Not to forget Simon Kaegi, Scott Lewis and Chris Aniszczyk and the rest of the Equinox and PDE teams for tuning up the Product concept. Your changes made things much easier.

And, I hope that you will find WAR deployment and creating WAR Products not just easier, but completely pain free!

Tags: equinox, indigo, OSGi, pde, rap, soc, war deployment

As I described in a previous blog I’m going to create the tooling for creating equinox based war files within this year’s gsoc. For this purpose I created some UI sketches with the WireframeSketcher. You can see the first thoughts on the UI below. I would appreciate if you can give some feedback on the sketches to improve the tooling. You can find more information about the war products at the wiki page.

• the new wizard

• the warproduct editor

• the export wizard

Tags: eclipseRT, equinox, OSGi, rap, soc, war deployment