Rich Ajax Platform, Part 1: An introduction

From: IBM developerWorks Worldwide  read times: 130


Provided by yangyi at 2007-12-23 19:41:39


Level: Intermediate

Chris Aniszczyk (zx@us.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM 
Benjamin Muskalla (bmuskalla@innoopract.com), Software Engineer, Innoopract Informationssysteme GmbH

23 Oct 2007

Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) and the concept of Web 2.0 has spread through the development community as a way add liveliness to Web-based applications. The Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) is a way to build Ajax-enabled Web applications by using the Eclipse development model. This article introduces RAP, tells you how to set up a RAP development environment, shows off some demos, and concludes with some simple-to-understand examples.

The RAP project aims to enable developers to build Rich Internet Applications by using the Eclipse development model. What does the "Eclipse development model" mean, exactly? Well, RAP allows you developers to build browser-based Ajax applications using full Java™ libraries and Eclipse APIs. It does so by providing a Web-enabled implementation of SWT, JFace, and the Eclipse Workbench. The purpose of this article is to introduce RAP through some simple examples.

Setup two-step

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