Eclipse Remote Application Platform 3.1.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
End Date of the Review Period

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Release

3.1.0

Description

RAP 3.1 is a minor update in the 3.x release stream. It adds support for UIs with right-to-left orientation (as used in the Arabic world), and integrates an improved CKEditor from the RAP Incubator project. Additionally, the performance has been improved by extending the new on-demand change detection.

API Certification

The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".

Security Issues

No known security issues.

Non-Code Aspects

The RAP Developer's Guide has been updated; it is available as part of the RAP Tools and on the project web site.

Examples and demos are included in the examples feature, and have been tested with 3.1. Release versions of the examples are deployed online available at rap.eclipsesource.com.

Usability Details

No usability issues.

End of Life

No change compared to RAP 3.0.

Standards
  • RWT requires javax.servlet version 2.5 .. 3.1
  • OSGi integration compatible with OSGi core spec
  • RAP protocol uses strict JSON as specified in RFC 4627
  • Java compiler level and minimum execution environment is Java 7 (JavaSE-1.7), but Java 8 (JavaSE-1.8) is required JFace Databinding support
Communities
  • 4 active committers
  • Continuous committer activity
  • Increasing number of external contributors
  • Steady flow of bug reports in bugzilla (~ 10 bug reports / month, including feature requests)
  • Very active discussions on the community forum/newsgroup
  • Blogs with N&N information about RAP at http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/tag/rap/, aggregated on Planet Eclipse
  • Integration with other Eclipse projects
    • Eclipse 4 support in the RAP Incubator
    • EMF provides RAP support
    • RAP is one of the target platforms of EMF Client Platform
    • RAP Tools is part of the EPP RCP/RAP package download
    • RAP Incubator provides RAP versions of many other components
  • Active role in the LTS working group

 

This release is part of Neon