A first look at Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP)

Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) allows developers to create Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using the OSGi standard component model. The main advantage of this technology is the ability to share the same Java code base for RCP and RIA applications.

In this two-part screencast you are going to see RAP installation process, look and feel of the RAP 1.0 Demo application and creation of the simple RAP plugin.

Installation of the RAP 1.0 using the Eclipse Update Manager (01:15):

RAP 1.0 Demo application. Creation of the "Hello world" RAP plugin (02:15):

Recommended books:

1. Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applications

1. Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins (2nd Edition)

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