Revision as of 07:05, 25 June 2009

Running E4 on RAP

Running the E4 as web application without touching the code? Read on :)

E4 Contacts Demo

E4 Photo Demo

Set up the target

You need:

• RAP 1.2 Runtime
• EMF 2.4.2 Runtime
• org.eclipse.core.resources
• org.eclipse.core.filesystem
• org.eclipse.equinox.ds
• org.eclipse.equinox.util

Get the source

Use the team project set and import the projects. The psf includes

• RAP runtime bundles from the e4_experimental branch
• additional RAP bundles for new features (IApplication support, Nebula, ..)
• original e4 runtime + demos

Run the demos

There are two launch configs included ( you need to have the RAP tooling installed in order to use them):

• E4 Photo Demo
• E4 Contacts Demo

RAP e4 experimental branch?

It's a branch for the RAP runtime bundle including several experimental features. Some noteworthy (but still highly experimental) features are:

• SWT resource constructors
• PaintListener / PaintEvents / GC
• Gradient support
• IApplication and product support

Open issues

As already discussed at the e4 summit and several other appointments there are some big challenges involved when you try to bring a regular application to the web. We already listed several of the big blockers on E4/RAP_Integration.

This list only covers some of the more subtle problems (mostly missing API - see also E4/RAP_Integration/RWT_misses_SWT-API).

• bug 201261 [Display] Listener support on Display (Resize-Listener)
• bug 228351 Display#disposeExec() missing
• bug 267068 [ctabfolder] setUnselectedImageVisible is missing
• bug 277689 IApplication support
• bug 279498 Make ImageData and related graphics API publically available
• bug 279640 [CTabFolder] setSelectionBackground(Color[], int[]) is missing
• bug 279653 [CTabFolder] setSelectionBackground(Image) is missing
• bug 279655 [CTabFolder] setSimple is missing
• bug 279688 [Composite] setLayoutDeferred is missing