Preliminary The RAP 1.2 project plan is still in preliminary state and not yet agreed upon by all parties. The RAP project enables developers to build rich, Ajax-enabled Web applications by using the Eclipse development model, plug-ins with the well known Eclipse workbench extenstion points, JFace, and a widget toolkit with SWT API. Plans for previous releases can be found on these wiki pages. Tooling (includes tool for debugging and testing, runtime, documentation) available as Update Site Runtime (target platform, includes source) available as downloadable archive Release milestones will be occurring at roughly 6 week intervals, and will be aligned with the Galileo Simultaneous Release train. Milestone names start with M2 in order to clarify this relationship. 1.2 M2 1.2 M3 1.2 M4 1.2 M5 1.2 M6 (API Freeze) 1.2 M7 (Feature Freeze) 1.2 RC1 1.2 RC2 1.2 RC3 1.2 RC4 A detailed RAP Ramp down Plan towards the release is available especially for the Eclipse Galileo Simultaneous Release integration. The target date for availability of RAP 1.2 is June 26, 2009 (with Galileo). Two service releases are planned for RAP 1.2 that will include critical bug fixes. SR 1 on 9/25/2009 and SR 2 on 2/26/2010. The server-side part of the Rich Ajax Platform 1.2 will be written and compiled against Equinox Version 3.5 Version 1.4.2 of the Java Platform APIs (i.e., Java 2 Platform, Release 1.4.2 SE) Java Servlet API Version 2.3 - 2.5 The client-side reference implementation depends upon qooxdoo. For this release the following web browsers/rendering engines will be supported Internet Explorer >= 6.0, version 7 and later is recommended Gecko (i.e. Firefox, Netscape) Webkit (i.e. Safari, Google Chrome) The Rich Ajax Platform is designed as the basis for internationalized products. The user interface elements provided by the RAP components, including dialogs and error messages, are externalized. The English strings are provided as the default resource bundles. RAP 1.2 will be backward compatible with RAP 1.1. As RWT implements a subset of the SWT API, we aim to implement functionality yet missing from RWT. This includes to make use of the newly implemented API in higher layers (e.g. Workbench, JFace). Drag & Drop More flexible widget decorations (e.g. rounded corners) Enable RAP applications to run on multiple browser-tabs, in portlet environments Automated performance tests Ease single sourcing with platform (bundle init, jobs infrastructure, singletons, shutdown house keeping, I18N) Become a target platform for Riena