Expand OSGi to more extent

clipped from www.businessreviewonline.com Complementing its Rich Client Platform (RCP), the Eclipse Foundation is now releasing version 1.0 of the server counterpart, the Rich Application Platform (RAP). It’s a Java-based platform that enables Java developers to work in Java, rather than JavaScript, to develop server-based rich browser clients. In contrast to Eclipse’s original direction that focused on development tools, the RCP and RAP are run time environments. Using the Eclipse Java IDE (plus other Eclipse plug-ins) as the development platform, both rich run times transform the Java code at run time to JavaScript. The idea of having a server run time is that, if you are exposing the same base data to multiple clients, it makes more sense to run that portion of the rich application back on the server.