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10 Jul 2020

RAP 3.7 Released!

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Planet Eclipse, Technology
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Together with the Eclipse Simultaneous Release 2018-12 we are releasing RAP 3.7 today. It's available from our download page and from the update sites. Highlights in this release are: New FileDialog API for specifying upload directory It's now possible to specify where the uploaded files will be stored. If uploadDirectory is not set, a temporary directory will be used as before. org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FileDialog.setUploadDirectory(File) org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FileDialog.getUploadDirectory() Support for upcoming Firefox 65+ release As we already...

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10 Jul 2020

Firefox change breaks key navigation in web frameworks including Eclipse RAP

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Planet Eclipse, Technology
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Update 1: As of October 31, 2018 Firefox will postpone the change probably to its Firefox 65 release planned for January 29, 2019. Update 2: It's confirmed that the change will be included in Firefox 65. Prepare for a significant change in how Firefox works with the Remote Application Platform (RAP) Eclipse RAP (Remote Application Platform) runs in all relevant web browsers, without any add-ons required. Only JavaScript...

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10 Jul 2020

Develop modern web UIs with the newest Eclipse RAP 3.6

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Technology
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The Eclipse Remote Application Platform (RAP) is a stable, feature complete framework, that allows you to develop modern web UIs for all relevant web browsers. The project has been around for more than 12 years, and with this blog post, we want to present the new features from RAP versions 3.3 to 3.6. For those who joined the RAP community recently, it is worth to mention...

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10 Jul 2020

Connecting the PicoCluster to your MacBook

by Ian Bull
in Technology, Trends
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I have started writing about my experiences with Kubernetes and the PicoCluster. The PicoCluster is a set of inexpensive boards (10 Rock64 boards in my case), housed in a single cluster with a network adapter, fan and power supply. They have been pre-configured with Ubuntu and Kubernetes. The cluster is in my basement, plugged directly into my router. With this setup, I have a 10 node...

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10 Jul 2020

Unboxing Kubernetes, Literally!

by Ian Bull
in Technology
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Cloud native, highly available, web-scale, coordinated containerized applications! Wow, that’s a mouthful, but what does it mean? Over the past six years, many large companies have started telling the world how they architect their systems to scale. From the now famous Netflix Global Cloud Architecture to Google’s Borg system, many of these companies have been solving the same problem using similar patterns. The systems are designed...

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10 Jul 2020

Authenticating Reverse Proxy with KeyCloak

by Ian Bull
in Technology
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Authentication & user management is hard Ok, it's not one of the two hardest problems in Computer Science, but adding authentication to your web-based application is non-trivial. In addition to the security concerns involved, you are also required to maintain account information, registration, and identity management, which most users are tired of. Nobody wants Yet Another Password To Remember (YAPTR). Of course, most of you will point...

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10 Jul 2020

Securing your Mobile JavaScript Applications

by Ian Bull
in EclipseSource News, Mobile, Technology
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JavaScript has been used as a client side language for over 20 years and as a server side language for close to 10. In the past 3 years, JavaScript has emerged as a language of choice for mobile app developers, especially those looking for a cross-platform solution. Technology stacks such as React Native and Tabris.js are the obvious choices, but some engineers are rolling their...

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10 Jul 2020

Tabris.js 2.0 – Top 10 Features: Simplified API

by Ralf Sternberg
in EclipseSource News, Mobile, Technology
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Tabris.js 2.0 is just two weeks away, and the development team is taking this ramp down time to reflect on the release and highlight the features we're really excited about. A new major release gave us the opporuntity to update the API. We have been designing APIs for Widget Toolkits for over 10 years, and in that time we've learned a lot. In Tabris 2.0, we've modernized...

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