Re: [nebula-dev] Let's become friends

[Hallvard Trætteberg <hal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wim and Ralf,

In the context of the new GeoMap widget and viewer I've been thinking of 
how to support RAP. I can imagine that some API methods, like panning 
and zooming, may be easy to support in a web browser, while others are 
more difficult or unnatural, such as configuring tile cache size, lookup 
etc. The same holds for the viewer, which draws markers on top of the 
tiles and uses a google rest API internally to dynamically create markers.

It would be nice if the RAP team could quickly review the API with 
portability to RAP in mind. I guess most project with potential for RAP 
support would need this.

Hallvard

On 29.06.12 14.20, Ralf Sternberg wrote:
> Hi Wim,
>
> yes, let's be friends :-)
>
> We have an extremely tight schedule for RAP 2.0, but are definitely
> interested in a collaboration. So let's see what we can do...
>
> Currently, we're working on a RAP version of the Nebula Grid [1].
> There are probably some things we can give back (such as tests, some
> patches, ...).  The API is Nebula, but the code is completely
> different because we don't draw but use (end extend) RAP's
> high-performance Grid-implementation in JavaScript. Once the first
> version is finished, it would be great if the Nebula site could add a
> screenshot of the Grid running on RAP and link to the RAP version.
>
> I guess the issue with most Nebula widgets is that they draw a lot,
> which partly works in the browser as well, but is often not the ideal
> solution. In those cases, it could make sense to create a
> RAP-optimized version of a widget in a branch or host it in the RAP
> Incubator. This is something which we're happy to help with.
>
> What we can also do to help pointing RAP users to Nebula is
> - show some Nebula widgets in our online demo (bug 382552)
> - create an addons section on our project page and point to
> rap-enabled Nebula widgets
>
>
> BTW, the RAP Oscilloscope is a completely new implementation, and it's
> not (yet) open source.
>
> Best regards,
> Ralf
>
>
> [1] http://eclipse.org/rap/incubator/
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Wim Jongman<wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Hi Rap/Nebula,
> >
> > Support for RAP in Nebula is available in some places. I know that Angelo's
> > widgets are all RAPified and that the RAP team has done some decent work on
> > the Oscilloscope.
> >
> > However, people looking for RAP support on the Nebula widgets cannot find
> > their way easily.
> >
> > Do you think it is a good idea to improve this? An if so what do you think
> > can be done?
> >
> > Please shoot any ideas/replies to both lists.
> >
> > subscribe to nebula-dev [1]
> > subscribe to rap-dev [2]
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Wim
> >
> >
> > [1] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
> > [2] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/rap-dev
> >
> >
> >
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