Remote Application Platform sounds more like technology for today:-) -----Original Message----- From: Frank Appel Sent: 25-09-2012 11:09 To: 'RAP project development-related communication' Subject: Re: [rap-dev] Proposal: "Remote Application Platform"
+1, sounds reasonable :-) -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Ralf Sternberg Gesendet: Montag, 24. September 2012 20:13 An: RAP project development-related communication Betreff: [rap-dev] Proposal: "Remote Application Platform" Hi everyone, When the RAP project started 6 years ago, its main objective was to provide a framework to make RCP applications available on the web. The resemblance of the name "Rich Ajax Platform" to "Rich Client Platform", was welcome back then as RAP was meant to complement RCP. But over time, our focus has moved to more lightweight applications and alternative clients like tablets and phones. Today this name does not describe our project very well anymore. The term "rich" does not reveal much information in itself and "Ajax" does not fit well for the native clients, even though they still use HTTP. Ajax is more a buzzword than a concise term anyway and as a buzzword, I think Ajax has lost its appeal. I recently found myself explaining RAP more often as a platform for "remote applications" and I think this describes the idea very well. It's essentially a platform for applications that run on a remote server. With the new protocol and the alternative clients, this aspect seems to become the central part of RAP. Therefore I'd like to propose to relabel RAP to "Remote Application Platform". This name would let us keep our short name, our namespace, our website, etc. It wouldn't be a very noticable change, but we'd get rid of the misleading name and highlight our technical approach better. The 2.0 release in February 2013 may be a good occasion for this renaming. What do you think? Ralf _______________________________________________ rap-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/rap-dev _______________________________________________ rap-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/rap-dev
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