The Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform

42 Pages·2008·2.29 MB·English

by  Frank Appel

The Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform
Frank Appel
RAP Tech Lead
[email protected]
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The Innoopract pitch
Integration & delivery Technology
Yoxos provides
Open Source
a plugin library
Project that extends
and tools that enable
the reach of
enterprises to manage
Eclipse components
and deliver
to the web
eclipse technology
Services
Helping corporations to implement Eclipse strategies,
offering consulting, development, support and training
We offer
RAP consulting, developer support, production support
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Agenda
•What is RAP
How does it work
Delveloper‘s view
Single Sourcing RAP/RCP
Demo
Outlook
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Agenda
•What is RAP
How does it work
Delveloper‘s view
Single Sourcing RAP/RCP
Demo
Outlook
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What we like about Eclipse
plug-ins, plug-ins, plug-ins – bundles too ...
OSGi specifies a dynamic component model:
(cid:1)
Module – encapsulation and declaration of dependencies
(cid:1)
Life Cycle – API for life cycle management
(cid:1)
Service Registry – providing functionality to other bundles
(cid:1)
Security layer - limit bundle functionality to pre-defined capabilities
The Eclipse OSGi implementation is provided by the Equinox Project
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What we like about Eclipse (cont’d)
contribution to a common ui concept
(cid:1)
Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
(cid:1)
delivers native widget functionality for the Eclipse platform in
an operating system independent manner
(cid:1)
JFace
(cid:1)
sits on top of SWT and provides classes for handling common
UI programming tasks
(cid:1)
Workbench
(cid:1)
is responsible for the presentation and coordination of the user
interface
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What we like about Eclipse (cont'd)
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What we like about Eclipse (cont'd)
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How does that translate to the web?
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How does that translate to the web? (cont’d)
RAP - enabling plug-in reuse
(cid:1)
70% - 90% reuse is possible
(cid:1)
RAP provides only a subset of RCP!
(cid:1)
needs separation of code that is not compatible
can be addressed with fragments
(cid:1)
application needs to become multi-user enabled
getting all the things we like about Eclipse
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