Jochen Krause
Top 7 Eclipse RAP features since release 3.0
Eclipse RAP has added a couple of cool new features for its current 3.14 release. These two made it into my favorites since the RAP 3.0 release. 7: Clipboard support for browsers that support the W3C …
Plan Your EclipseCon NA with the Conference App
EclipseCon North America is just around the corner, and the EclipseCon NA 2016 app has finally arrived to help you make the best of the conference! Update: A Windows app is now also available: The app …
How RAP Inspired a New Generation of Mobile Apps
Eclipse RAP is well-known for enabling the migration of complex RCP applications to the web, and providing a sustainable single sourcing paradigm. It’s been delivering on these promises for the past …
Dynamic i18n for Tabris.js with selectors and apply()
Internationalization is a common task for developers and can be easily solved with Tabris.js by working with language specific modules. This article explains the ability of Tabris.js to go beyond the …
Native Mobile Apps in JavaScript with Tabris.js
Developing mobile apps in JavaScript / HTML5 holds a great promise. Getting started is easy, Cross Platform is a given and the ecosystem of components and libraries is huge. Still, most apps today are …
RAP at EclipseCon Europe 2014
EclipseCon Europe was another great event which showed us how active the European Eclipse Community is. It is really great to see Eclipse still thriving after more than 10 years. This year I had the …
JavaScript for Java developers
Most Java developers stick up their nose if it comes to JavaScript. Today I would like to present you a way of dealing with JavaScript that is less alienating than learning prototype based inheritance …
Introducing Eclipse 4 on RAP
Today I am happy to announce that RAP and Eclipse 4 can now be used together. Over the last couple of months we have been working with Tom Schindl, who will be reporting on RAP and Eclipse4 as a guest …
Eclipse Lifetime Contribution Award goes to Markus Knauer
The Eclipse Community recognizes people that make longtime, major contributions to Eclipse with the Eclipse Lifetime Contribution Award. We are very pleased that this year, the Award goes to Markus …
A lightweight Java application server on Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation As of recently, Oracle is providing a JVM for Raspberry Pi that performs well enough to use the Pi as an application server. Raspberry Pi …
Eclipse RAP at Allianz
It is always great to see the adoption of your open source project at large enterprises. It is even better when you receive positive feedback from those organizations. Without a doubt, it is best when …
Visualizing data with D3
Using visualization to extract knowledge from data is one proven approach for dealing with large amounts of data. Today I would like to introduce you to D3, an intriguing JavaScript library for …
Firefox OS Rant
I have to admit that I am a little bit frustrated with Firefox OS, so here comes my RANT. I am not complaining that the system is at a very early stage with lots of issues, this has to be expected. I …
Firefox OS Peak - First Impressions (Part 1)
On April 23rd, the Firefox OS developer preview phones became available in Europe - and were sold out in a few hours. The demand was so overwhelming that the supplier geeksphone had to shut down …
Revealing Tabris with reveal.js
Creating and sharing presentations using most of the tools available today is a pain. I think this is mainly due to the fact that they mix content and design in one document and often do a poor job in …
RAP becomes the Remote Application Platform
RAP is approaching its second major release in its 6 year history, and major releases should be accompanied by major new functionality - at least this is our take on versioning. With RAP 2.0 we are …
Mobile development survey - target mobile platforms, skills and look & feel
Last week we published a tool for giving developers hints on which mobile platforms might best suite their requirements with respect to platforms, skill and more parameters. Mobile Select-O-Matic does …
Mobile Select-O-Matic - find the right mobile technology
Over the past year we have been actively researching the landscape of mobile development solutions for business. There is a vast amount of different approaches with different strength and weaknesses. …
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Current and future viability of Eclipse No, this is not another farewell. We have had too many of them over the last few years. Following the recent discussion [1][2][3] about Eclipse Juno one can get …
The future of GWT?
Last month I was researching options for writing multi-platform mobile apps in Java. Beside our own framework Tabris the Google Web Toolkit is an obvious option. When I started to dig a little deeper …
Is Eclipse awesome?
Today, there is one major ingredient for successful technology marketing: Use the word “awesome” as often as you can. You can even do better by using “totally awesome”. Or “insanely awesome” if you …
Github everywhere with venture funding?
Github has announced a Series A round of venture funding today. They are taking 100 million USD from Andreessen Horowitz - and at least the first part of the name should be familiar to software …
RAP mobile is now Tabris - Tabris SDK available for download
We are happy to announce the availability of the Tabris SDK as a free download. Tabris, formerly known as RAP mobile, is a platform for building mobile apps for iOS and Android. Tabris is based on …
Does the Google App Engine still matter?
Although it started three years ago with the promise of almost infinite scalability and a big echo in the community, it has become quiet around the Google App Engine. Google trends reveals that search …
Tabris - iOS and Android apps written in Java
Industry experts have predicted that mobile computing is going to have a huge impact on the software industry. I agree. That’s why we asked ourselves if OSGi, RAP and Eclipse RT can help overcome some …
Eclipse Modeling in Germany - now at EclipseSource
I am happy to announce that EclipseSource is finally entering the modeling world and would like to introduce Max and Jonas as our new team members in Munich. Both are well known in the modeling …
redView at EclipseSource
We recently had a workshop on redView with the developers of the project, probably many of you know ekke. We wanted to evaluate it and gain a better understanding if we could use it in the context of …
The right groove?
Wouldn’t it be cool to have some sort of rap for a project called RAP? Here is a first try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgthqBYsYsk I think this is fun, but maybe I am getting too much into …
Safari 4.0 - or closing the gap to RCP
Apple has released a beta of the next major release of the Safari web browser. Beside having a couple of cool new features like a preview of your top sites on the start page and coverflow for …
The RAP book finally arrived
This is an exciting moment for me - the first book about Eclipse RAP has now finally arrived in print. “Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform - Bringing Rich Clients to the Web” by Fabian Lange A book is always …
The e4 RAP and RCP/RAP single sourcing webinar
e4 is now an official incubating project under the Eclipse project, the review ended positively and uneventful. There have been some promising experiments and demos going on already, the latest ones …
PresentationFactory for RAP
As Neil pointed out in Having fun with RAP and OSGi there is a challenge for us rappers: Provide a look & feel of RAP applications suitable for the web. We do not claim that we are completely there, …