Documentation

Developer Guide (Help Center)

This is the official help for RAP. It is included in your Eclipse help if you installed the RAP Tooling. Help for the latest release can also be accessed online.

The developer guide shows how to develop RAP applications and also covers some advanced topics like branding and i18n. It also contains JavaDoc and reference documents.

Resources Related to Underlying Technologies

RAP development requires knowledge of a couple of underlying technologies. We've collected a couple of resources that we recommend to read:

Equinox

• Equinox QuickStart Guide
• Equinox Server-side Quickstart
• Building a Server-based Application with Equinox

SWT

• SWT Snippets
• Understanding Layouts in SWT

JFace and Databinding

• How to use the JFace Tree Viewer
• Creating JFace Wizards
• Databinding Overview Page , FAQ and Code Snippets

Workbench

• Inside the Workbench - A guide to the workbench internals
• Using Perspectives in the Eclipse UI
• Eclipse Workbench: Using the Selection Service
• On the Job: The Eclipse Jobs API
• Drag and Drop in the Eclipse UI

Articles and Tutorials

A lot of articles and tutorials have been published about RAP:

• Interview (): RAP in Indigo: Die neue Auflage der Rich Ajax Platform, jax enter, Juli 2011, Ralf Sternberg
• Article (): Einführung in die Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), heise online, Jan 2011, Rüdiger Herrmann, Ralf Sternberg
• Interview (): Eclipse RAP in Helios, jax enter, Juli 2010, Rüdiger Herrmann
• Whitepaper: Apartment threading in RAP, August 2009, Benjamin Muskalla
• Tutorial: How to integrate BIRT into RAP applications, July 2009, Benjamin Muskalla
• Tutorial: Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) - Tutorial with Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo), June 2009, Lars Vogel
• Book: Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform - Bringing Rich Clients to the Web Fabian Lange, Nov 2008
• Chat on the RAP, Nov 24th, 2008, Glenn Galang
• Webinar: Single-Sourcing Techniques for RAP and RCP, Oct 23, 2008, Frank Appel
  PDF Slides    Code examples    MP4 Recording    WMV Recording   (~ 60 Minutes)
• Article: Using Eclipse Ganymede to develop for the desktop, Web and mobile devices, Part 2: Developing for the Rich Client Platform, the Ganymede way IBM developerWorks, Sep 9, 2008, Suresh Krishna & Trebor Fenstermaker
• Article (): Einsatzmöglichkeiten der Eclipse RAP April 2008, Steffen Schäfer
• Webinar: Rich AJAX Platform (RAP) Project Feb 13, 2008, Jochen Krause
• Article: Web 2.0, the Eclipse way, Part I, Part II: An article at IBM developerWorks, Dec 11, 2007, by Chris Aniszczyk & Benjamin Muskalla
• Article: The Rich get Richer: RAP builds on RCP DevX, Nov 27, 2007, Riccardo Govoni (Google)
• Article: RCP goes Web 2.0 September 28, 2007
• Blog / Video: See how you can make an RCP Application run in your browser Sept 11, 2007, Elias Volanakis