Difference between revisions of "Rap10M6 News"

To be with RAP as near as possible at the original implementation of RCP we decided to repackage some bits to a new bundle called "org.eclipse.rap.ui" - an equivalent to the existing "org.eclipse.ui" plug-in. As consequence some of the existing extension points has been moved to another namespace. Here is a list with all changes:

The RAP-specific extension points were moved from the "org.eclipse.rap.ui.workbench" namespace to "org.eclipse.rap.ui". This affects:

• adapterfactory
• entrypoint
• phaselistener
• resources

Extension points for themeing were moved from "org.eclipse.rap.swt" to the namespace mentioned above. This affects:

• themeableWidgets
• themes

All other extensions points (like "org.eclipse.ui.*") are not affected at all.

To adapt your existing plug-ins

• open your manifest editor of your plug-in
• switch to the "Dependencies" tab
• replace "org.eclipse.rap.ui.workbench" with "org.eclipse.rap.ui"
• switch to the "plugin.xml" tab in order to adapt the namespace changes according to the list above. PDE will help here.

We just migrated to the latest revision of qooxdoo, the client-side JavaScript library of RAP. Beside many bug fixes, with this update, two flavors of qooxdoo builds are provided. The one with which RAP runs by default is optimized in size and speed. Targeted to custom widget developers is the debug variant. When launching RAP with the -Dorg.eclipse.swt.clientLibraryVariant=debug VM argument, the debug version of qooxdoo is used that offers better readable JavaScript code.

There is initial support for the Forms Toolkit, Forms Editors and the like. The focus was put on API compatibility and functionality rather than mimicking the exact look of RCP Forms. The following is a list of the things that are already available:

• ColumnLayout and TableWrapLayout
• ExpandableComposite and Section
• Hyperlink, ImageHyperlink (yet without actually showing the image) and HyperlinkGroup
• TreeNode, Twistie and their common ancestor ToggleHyperlink
• ScrolledPageBook
• Form and ScrolledForm, FormToolkit
• Form editors (FormEditor, FormPage, SharedHeaderFormEditor)

Thanks to the donation of a Fortune 500 corporation we were able to acquire additional resources to have this implemented.