Benjamin Muskalla

Using Equinox Security in RCP and RAP

May 13, 2010

I finally had the time to care about one of my outstanding tasks - provide a tutorial and example how to use Equinox Security. While the tutorial was initially targeted for RAP users, I also added a …

Google Summer of Code 2010 is on!

April 27, 2010

Finally the voting process for this years Google Summer of Code is over and they announced the accepted students. I’m really happy that so many interesting proposals got trough and really looking …

Sketch your UI

April 26, 2010

From time to time, I’m in the situation when I want to suggest a UI change or even try to come up with a completely new UI. While I love programming, it may be easier in these situations to just …

Eclipse DemoCamp 2010 in Mannheim

April 22, 2010

Ever been to Mannheim? If not - this is your chance to visit this lovely city. For the Helios release, the guys behind the majug² (Mannheimer Java user Group) invite everybody to the Helios Democamp …

Drawing with RAP? Yup!

April 20, 2010

I have to admit, I’m a little nervous what happens with the RAP community after this post. At least for me, the last days were pretty exciting. Some days ago, Ivan from the RAP team committed the …

Revamping Eclipse Examples?

April 14, 2010

Even though I’ve been involved in the Eclipse community for around 5 years, I’m still amazed by the projects that are hosted under the Eclipse umbrella. As an “insider”, I have a pretty good overview …

EMF and RAP - what a lovely pair

March 22, 2010

During the last weeks, Kenn and I worked together to support EMF generated editors running on RAP. I’m always mesmerized by how effective such synergies can be used when people from different teams …

EclipseRT & RAP around the world

November 23, 2009

We’re all looking forward to talk about EclipseRT, Equinox and RAP at the DemoCamps around the world. In case you want to catch us and talk about Eclipse and related topics, just join one of the …

Eclipse RAP 1.3 M2 Released

October 8, 2009

The RAP team is proud to announce the second milestone for the Helios release. As Holger already mentioned in his blog post, part of the milestone is a new design option for RAP applications. You can …

Picasso paints the web with RAP

September 11, 2009

Whenever I’m working on UI stuff, something always goes terribly wrong ;-) Sometimes it’s only a margin or padding, other times it a composite that crosses my path. I was pretty happy that Chris …

Eclipse e4 on the web

August 25, 2009

With e4 0.9 out in the wild, we should think again about the goals e4 tries to provide. One of them was to reduce the gap between Desktop and Web - not only speaking of reusing widgets but also to …

Integrating BIRT into RAP applications

July 6, 2009

Finally I had some time to write down some of my experiences with integrating the Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) into a Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) application. I wrote it all down in a …

Eclipse Galileo and RAP

July 3, 2009

As Galileo is out in the wild and we are all already working on Helios… I thought it would be handy to give a quick overview of the New and Noteworthy features the RAP team worked on for Galileo. …

Tease the RAP committers!

March 13, 2009

Ok, it’s getting tough. Only 9 days left before EclipseCon officially starts. All contributors and committers around me are already swarming around to get the demos and presentations ready - besides …