Nattable 2.6.0 support for Eclipse target platform 3.28 #191
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So we are in the transition phase of migrating our Eclipse RCP application to Eclipse RAP. Our application is currently running target platform 3.28 and has good usage of nattable. Since the olrder version of nattable is not supported by RAP we need to change it to either nebula grid or fall back to swt/jface implementation. But Nattable 2.6.0 seems to be supporting RAP but it requires version 4.x of target platform. My question is can we still use nattable 2.6.0 with my eclipse (2024-03) target 3.28 ? |
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I suppose you are talking about the RAP version in your target platform? Because that is the only place where I would see a version 3.28 for the Eclipse 2024-03. Otherwise I don't really understand your question. If that is the question, than no. NatTable RAP needs at least RAP 4.0.0 as documented in the README of https://github.com/eclipse-nattable/nattable-rap. That is because we need to use some features of RAP that were introduced there. With older versions of RAP it does not work. Aren't you able to update the RAP version in your target platform? Or even move to a newer Eclipse Platform version? Should be easier than migrating tables from NatTable to something else. |
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yes, I was talking about RAP version 3.28. We currently did not plan for Eclipse upgrade (RAP upgrade) for our application (I mean using the later version of RAP 4.x). Let me go back and re-evaluate the efforts needed to upgrade the rap version as against trying to change from nebula nattable to something else that supports RAP 3.28, ideally upgrading eclipse should be the right path. The only constraint we have is on Java. We are fixed on Java 17, I just need to make sure that the RAP version 4.3 (the documentation says RAP 4.3 supports Java 17) and all the other dependencies that I am currently using in my app still run on Java 17. Thanks Dirk, for quick response! |
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Than I have bad news for you. The NatTable RAP fragment requires Java 21 |
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so, we are saying Nattable RAP won't run on Java 17? That's a bummer! I think we need to fall back to evaluate nebula Grid as an alternate or even use vanila SWT/JFace. |
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Yes, NatTable RAP does not run with Java 17. I used several Java 21 features in the implementation. And actually Java 17 is reaching EOL soon. Dependent on the distribution September this year or next year. At least if you do not pay for a extended support. But to be honest, updating to Java 21 from Java 17 should be a simple task. But of course it depends on the distribution you use. |
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I suppose you are talking about the RAP version in your target platform? Because that is the only place where I would see a version 3.28 for the Eclipse 2024-03. Otherwise I don't really understand your question.
If that is the question, than no. NatTable RAP needs at least RAP 4.0.0 as documented in the README of https://github.com/eclipse-nattable/nattable-rap. That is because we need to use some features of RAP that were introduced there. With older versions of RAP it does not work.
Aren't you able to update the RAP version in your target platform? Or even move to a newer Eclipse Platform version? Should be easier than migrating tables from NatTable to something else.