On 10/23/07, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. :( 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). > Excellent! So, Alex, you're right... "we better embed Jetty into ApacheDS soon" > It's a good thing we have this on the roadmap. It's not at all anything that is difficult to do. I had already done this for Triplesec so it's just another task for us. Thanks for the excellent news and thorough research into this new technology. This certainly fills a void and has a practical use for us at a very low cost. I like that combination :). Alex 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 > > > > > > > >
