We demonstrate how to implement your own small chat application with Eclipse Scout. Using the BahBah chat example application we will see how a Scout application supports multiple frontends such as desktop, web, tablet and mobile with a single code base.
We demonstrate how to implement your own small chat application with Eclipse Scout. Using the BahBah chat example application we will see how a Scout application supports multiple frontends such as desktop, web, tablet and mobile with a single code base.
Access to business critical systems through mobile devices is becoming a hard requirement. Therefore, IT departments as well as software companies will need to decide on a technology portfolio to address this challenge. Eclipse Scout is making your life easier by adding the necessary support for tablets and mobile phones with the Eclipse Kepler release.
Everybody knows : Web is the platform of the future. Developing for the browser unfortunately requires us to learn and write JavaScript. Not only that but we also have to integrate the JavaScript client code with the server side, which often runs on the JVM (i.e. is written in Java). So we have to work in two different languages with completely different tools and APIs, and cannot share code between the client and the server.
After a brief introduction to Eclipse Scout and building a first "hello world" application, we start with the explanation of the provided initial BahBahChat workspace.
You will learn how to create server services to send your chat messages, listeners to handle the incoming data on a client and UI elements to present it to the user. This can be achieved efficiently using the Scout SDK which is seamlessly integrated in your Eclipse IDE.