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Eclipse in a browser - Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP)

I’ll not be at EclipseCon this year (it conflicts with polishing our next major product release this week) but if I was there I’d be going to any sessions related to the new Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) incubator project. Think the Eclipse UI running in your browser, with the Eclipse application, developed as plugins, running remotely on a web server.

The Yoxos Eclipse On Demand online Eclipse distribution builder is a good example of the types of applications this framework could support. In fact, given that Yoxos is run by Innopract, the folks who are driving the RAP project, it is probably the best example out there. It’d be interesting to find out how far along they are with their RWT API implementation - attempting to build a remote client framework based on a local client framework like SWT is perhaps a dangerous thing to attempt to do but we’ll see how they fare.

(Not to be confused with the WTP 2.0 AJAX Tooklit Framework (ATF) incubator project or the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) which are designed to also support development of AJAX applications, albeit using other frameworks and user interfaces…)

1 Comment to Eclipse in a browser - Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP)

1. 

   Shame on you Aehso..

   Turning down EclipseCon in favour of another major product release..

   tut tut!
Brian on March 8th, 2007

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