[ews.eclipse.technology.rap] Re: Numiton Migration Tools - an online RAP

[Benjamin Muskalla <bmuskalla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert,

it's awesome to see new applications popping up in the wild :) We really 
like what you guys accomplished with RAP. If it's ok for you We'd list 
you as a third party application on our demo page 
[http://eclipse.org/rap/demos.php]. Is that alright?

Here are some small things I encountered while using the demo:
* You should update the business theme. Your version is missing an icon 
for maximize shell buttons [see Show Errors shell in the Snippets]. This 
is already fixed in the newer version of the theme.
* Registering as new user fails with a InvocationTargetException.

btw: Did you write the RAP app with PHP? :P Sorry, could not resist to 
ask that.

Best regards,
  Ben

Robert Enyedi wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> At my startup company we have just opened up for public access a RAP
> application: http://migrate.numiton.com/
>
> We are in the business of automated software migration and this is a
> tool that visitors can use to browse migration samples (currently from
> PHP to Java) and to also create their own snippets.
>
> We considered all technology options and in the end we picked RAP for
> the task. I want to thank everyone from the newsgroup for their direct
> and indirect support while developing the application.
>
> The application is in (real) beta state since there are still some
> issues to iron out. It looks like a small application, but its the tip 
> of an iceberg (the migration system) and performance and scalability 
> issues might still bite us.
>
> We used RAP 1.2.1, the free version of Instantiations SWT Designer for
> GUI design (a great tool) and UrlRewriteFilter from tuckey.org for URL
> rewriting. We deploy the application on Tomcat 6.0.18 running on an
> Amazon EC2 small instance along with other Java web applications.
> Overall we've been extremely pleased with RAP and, knowing its solid RCP
> foundation, we see it as a serious contender for enterprise applications
> development.
>
> While publishing the application source code unfortunately isn't an
> option for us, there is nothing special in the code itself. But if you
> are unsure about the implementation specifics of some functionality,
> feel free to ask either here or send me a private message.
>
> Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Robert