Hi Alex, I just tested it and I have bad news and good news...
The good news is, it can be very flexible and easy to develop a light weight AND a rich client with the SAME code, with just a switch of target plaform when compiling the classes and a simple dependencies replacements in the MANIFEST.MF file. The bad news is, not all the SWT classes have been ported yet to Ajax UI classes so most of our existing plugins won't work with RAP. I tried to adapt the LDAP Browser to the RAP prerequisites but, we're using too many classes that have not been ported yet and the code have thousands of errors that we can't fix. However, I managed to get the Apache DS Configuration Plugin almost working inside RAP. Here are some screenshots of what it looks like : http://people.apache.org/~pamarcelot/ApacheDSConfInRAP/ <http://people.apache.org/%7Epamarcelot/ApacheDSConfInRAP/> You can compare these screenshots to the "real" Rich Client Platform result with the screenshots on this page : http://directory.apache.org/studio/screenshots.html It looks almost the same. So I think, this can be interesting to look at an administrative application for Apache DS that could be deploy as an RCP Application but also as a RAP Application (which could be launched with the server using Jetty). So, Alex, you're right... "we better embed Jetty into ApacheDS soon" Regards, P-A On 10/18/07, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah I saw this a while back. Actually one of their developers showed it > to me at my house. > I ran into him when Niclas Hedhman decided to throw an OSGi party at my > place :). > > Anyways, I nearly shat my pants when I first saw what they were doing. > This was right when the > application for the incubator was filed. Even then they were showing us > how the same bundles were > used to generate both a fat client UI and an Ajax based web application > UI. At that time they seemed > to simply swap out the SWT libraries under the hood so that even bundles > that worked with SWT > could be used to generate ajax UIs. Essentially the SWT implementation > was swapped out for a web > based one. Exactly, it is just a matter of target platform, but not all SWT packages have their identicals in RAT UI, so some code does not compile At that time it seemed a bit heavy but I guess they must have come a long > way. I wonder if it will scale > but then again how many people are going to be banging against an LDAP > administrative UI at the same > time? > > Heh we better embed Jetty into ApacheDS soon :). > > Alex > > On 10/17/07, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, sure ! > > > > It seems to be a really good idea ! > > > > On 10/18/07, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Hi Dev, > > > > > > I've just discovered a new project at the Eclipse Foundation that has > > > graduated from incubation and released its 1.0 release: Eclipse Rich > > Ajax > > > Platform (RAP): http://www.eclipse.org/rap/ > > > > > > Take a look at the demos provided here: > > > http://www.eclipse.org/rap/demos.php > > > > > > That's very impressive... Eclipse look and feel inside a Web brower... > > > > > > > > Maybe it could be interesting to take a closer look at that and see if > > it's > > > not possible to deliver two implementation of UI for our plugins, one > > with > > > SWT and one with RWT. The core could be the same and we could only > > rewrite > > > the UI for each platform. > > > > > > Regards, > > > P-A > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Cordialement, > > Emmanuel Lécharny > > www.iktek.com > > > >
