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Getting started with Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) |
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Written by Content Team
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Sep 20, 2006 at 10:24 PM |
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Various technologies like Ajax,
Flash and Java Swing are competing to provide the rich
internet experience that users are looking for. Although 'Rich Internet
Application' is an ambiguous phrase that can mean different things to
different people, there's research to suggest that companies do want
RIA, whatever it means.
In an article on Syscon, Coach
Wei looks at the origins of RIA and the various RIA options.
He quotes a Gartner Research that says "By 2010, at least 60% of new
application development projects will
include RIA technology, and at least 25% of those will rely primarily
of RIA (0.7 probability)"
He classifies RIA approaches into:
* Object-oriented programming (OOP) based approaches, such as
Java and .NET and
* Scripting-based approaches, including AJAX and Flash
He then goes on to discuss declarative UI
development as well as the pros and cons of RIA approaches and how one
can decide which RIA approach is most suited to an application.
The article "AJAX, Java,
Flash, and .NET" gives you a
quick overview of the RIA space today.
Considering the growing demand for
a richer web experience and a relative stabilization of serverside
technologies, UI and RIA technologies can be expected to see
the most action over the next few years.
Related
Swing UI is mature while Ajax is
still in its infancy
Canoo
announces Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for mobile
Is
AJAX worth adopting?
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