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RIA News Desk
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Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.
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Adobe's Kevin Lynch and
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo By RIA News Desk  Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Eve... Jul. 25, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 18,175 Replies: 1 | RIA Themes & Topics at
the 6th International
AJAX World RIA Conference
& Expo By RIA News Desk  A round-up of the overall
themes and topics being
presented at the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo at
The Fairmont Hotel in San
Jose, CA, October 20-22,
2008 - including AIR &
Flex, AJAX, ASP.NET,
Google Web Toolkit (GWT),
iPhone Development,
Ja... Jul. 25, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 1,372 Replies: 1 | Microsoft's Silverlight
Boss on How Silverlight 2
Fits in with Media and
RIA Scenarios By RIA News Desk  Scott Guthrie isn't much
bothered whether they're
called 'Rich Internet
Applications' or 'Rich
Interactive Applications'
- Microsoft, where
Guthrie is Corporate Vice
President of the .NET
Developer Platform and
therefore head of the
Redmond team behind
Silverlight... Jul. 23, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 10,345 Replies: 4 | WaveMaker Visual AJAX
Studio Enables Rapid
Application Development
for Xignite Web Services By RIA News Desk WaveMaker announced a
strategic partnership
with on-demand financial
Web services provider
Xignite. Together,
Xignite and WaveMaker
will simplify the process
by which financial
services organizations
integrate key financial
information into the
processes and
app... Jul. 23, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 326 | New NetSuite CRM+
Features Enhance
Ease-Of-Use With Advanced
AJAX-Powered Workflows By RIA News Desk NetSuite announced new
capabilities for its
flagship CRM product,
NetSuite CRM+, featuring
AJAX-powered workflows
that enhance ease-of-use
of marketing automation
and knowledge management
functionality used in
customer support and
customer service. These
new workf... Jul. 23, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 262 | New Nitobi AJAX Suite
Released: Complete UI By RIA News Desk Ajax specialists, Nitobi
Inc., releases Complete
UI 2008 Q3 with
enhancements to two of
the suite's Ajax
components, support for
JavaServer Faces (JSF),
and support for Firefox
3. Nitobi's Complete UI
integrated platform for
building web user
interfaces includes 1... Jul. 22, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 830 | Adobe CTO on the Great
Shift From OS-Specific
Apps to Web Apps By RIA News Desk  The move from native,
OS-specific applications
to web applications
continues to be one of
the biggest 'disruptions'
in the software industry
today, said Adobe CTO
Kevin Lynch recently in
an interview with the
Wharton Business School.
'We're a leader in
enabling th... Jul. 21, 2008 04:30 AM Reads: 8,211 | Saving Your Investment:
Transforming J2EE
applications into Web 2.0
using GWT By RIA News Desk  The pressure is on to
keep pace with Web 2.0
entrants into the
marketplace. Rewriting is
expensive; adding AJAX
widgets results in a
complex, unmaintainable
application. Both require
you to hire scarce
JavaScript developers.
Google Web Toolkit -- the
SDK that allo... Jul. 18, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 2,479 | How Linked Data and AJAR
Changes Everything By RIA News Desk  The Web has evolved into
a structured data space
of loosely connected
databases, enabling
granular data
access-by-reference to
Web-accessible entities,
courtesy of HTTP. This
evolution and the
emergence of AJAX-based
RIA technologies lay the
foundation for a new
... Jul. 18, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 1,242 | AJAX, Cloud Computing &
Enterprise Mashups By RIA News Desk  SaaS based applications
continue to grow at a
staggering rate.
According to software
market analysts, SaaS
represented approximately
5% of business software
revenue in 2005 and, by
2011, 25% of new business
software will be
delivered as SaaS and
will grow at a 21%... Jul. 18, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 1,870 | Server-Side,
PHP-Generated AJAX By RIA News Desk  As Web-based applications
are pushing the 'Rich
User Experience'
envelope, AJAX is quickly
becoming a standard
front-end for any PHP
application. But
unfortunately as PHP
applications that utilize
AJAX are being forced to
morph from two-tier to
three-tier architec... Jul. 17, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 1,498 | Building Great AJAX
Applications Using
ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual
Studio 2008 By RIA News Desk  Come see a no-slides,
code-only presentation
that starts with a blank
directory and builds a
data-driven, AJAX
enabled, ASP.NET web
application from scratch
that implements common
AJAX patterns with the
rich set of AJAX Control
Toolkit, accesses data
with LINQ, an... Jul. 17, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 2,839 | AJAX in Enterprise
Portals By RIA News Desk  Not only enterprise
portals integrators are
using AJAX at the portal
level but now they can
also use it for the
development of more
user-friendly JSR-168
portlets. With the
arrival of new standards,
AJAXified JSF Components
like IceFaces ot
RichFaces became a
re... Jul. 17, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 1,455 | AJAX Integration Guide
for Spring Enterprise
Applications By RIA News Desk  Today, there is a wealth
of technologies to take
advantage of to add AJAX
behaviors to your
Spring-based Java Web
applications. This
session will assume you
know the basics of AJAX
and Spring, and will dive
straight into evaluating
the leading AJAX
technologies, a... Jul. 16, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 1,636 | User Experience and RIAs:
How Does It All Come
Together? By RIA News Desk RIAs provide the promise
of an excellent User
eXperience, but the
ultimate success of the
UX is driven more by the
skill of the developer
than the tool selection
itself. This session will
discuss the foundation
and importance of the
application of cognitive
scienc... Jul. 16, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 1,227 | Spice Up User Experience
with Silverlight By RIA News Desk  Microsoft introduced
Silverlight as
cross-platform,
cross-browser next
generation RIA solution.
This session will use
real world
implementations to show
you how to build a
Silverlight application
from start to finish, as
well overall strategy why
we should or sh... Jul. 16, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 1,938 | The Beauty of JavaScript By RIA News Desk  JavaScript is one of the
most interesting and
misunderstood programming
languages in common use
today. Most developers
will go their entire
careers without realizing
its full potential. It's
not often that you get a
language that supports
the feature set that
Java... Jul. 16, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 1,752 | Mavirroco Cuts
Application Development
Time with WaveMaker
Visual AJAX Studio By RIA News Desk WaveMaker announced that
Mavirroco Consulting has
successfully built and
deployed an open source
web directory and content
management system for the
Medical College of
Tarijas using WaveMaker
Visual AJAX Studio. The
new internal Web
application, called
'ColMed,' a... Jul. 16, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 1,276 | Preparing Your Brand for
the Mobile Web Experience By RIA News Desk  As the mobile Web
matures, we see more and
more people running
around airports with
their mobile devices in
hand, searching for hotel
rooms, reading the news,
or just playing video
games. People are more
connected with their
mobile phone today than
any other elect... Jul. 14, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 1,626 | The Networked Application
Pattern By RIA News Desk  The Networked Application
is an emerging design
pattern in rich Internet
application development.
The crux of the pattern
is to push all user
interface code to the
client. The client
'downloads' the
application, and the
application then
communicates to one or
mo... Jul. 14, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,606 | Understanding iPhone
JavaScript Extensions By RIA News Desk  Apple has introduced a
number of extensions to
the JavaScript
programming language to
assist iPhone Web
developers. Including new
fast lookup functions,
native SVG graphics
processing, CSS effects,
database storage and full
screen mode. These new
functions will tr... Jul. 14, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 1,634 | OpenAjax Alliance:
Browser Engine Access To
Mobile Device APIs By RIA News Desk  Many new model mobile
devices allow the 'Web
Runtime' (i.e., the
browser engine) to invoke
device capabilities from
JavaScript, such as
access to current
location (e.g., via GPS),
phone dialer, camera,
address book, calendar,
email, and SMS, whereas
previously the... Jul. 14, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 1,771 | HTML 5, WebSocket, and
Comet - The Future of the
Web By RIA News Desk  This session will provide
an in-depth look into the
use of HTML 5 WebSocket
and the techniques and
technologies required to
build Comet applications
with it. Additionally,
the speakers will discuss
the trade-offs between
emerging de jure
standards (such as HTML
5'... Jul. 14, 2008 01:45 PM Reads: 1,488 | AJAX & Flash Based RTView
5.0 Released By RIA News Desk SL Corporation, a
provider of real-time
monitoring, analytics,
and visualization
software, today announced
the availability of
RTView version 5.0. This
latest release allows
users to mix and match a
variety of Web 2.0
technologies ? including
AJAX and Flash ? to
... Jul. 14, 2008 01:45 PM Reads: 667 | Core Animation on the
iPhone By RIA News Desk  Build stunning animated
applications that do
amazing things that will
knock your users socks
off. Drawing on the
content of his book on
Core Animation, Dudney
will take you through the
concepts crucial to
building beautiful native
apps for the iPhone. Jul. 14, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 2,151 | Web 3.0 and the Age of
Intelligence By RIA News Desk  Often called the Semantic
or Pervasive Web, Web 3.0
brings a level of
artificial intelligence
to transform the Internet
from a searchable catalog
to a personal guide that
can reason in a
human-like fashion and
provide users with more
services and options for
socia... Jul. 14, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 2,401 | Showtime: Bringing the
Co-Web to a Screen Near
You! By RIA News Desk  The Co-Web, the
collaborative, media
converged Web, is upon
us. The Co-Web is
interpersonal; it is
about getting work done
together. It is much more
than surfing a
YouTube/Google Map mashup
while Twittering with
co-workers. Showtime uses
those same technologies
... Jul. 14, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 1,872 | JavaScript: The Good
Parts By RIA News Desk  JavaScript is a language
with more than its share
of bad parts. It went
from non-existence to
global adoption in an
alarmingly short period
of time. It never had an
interval in the lab when
it could be tried out and
polished. JavaScript has
some extraordinarily good... Jul. 14, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 2,070 | The Business Value of
Social Networking on
Corporate Intranets By RIA News Desk  This Session will
demonstrate why social
networking is more than
just marketing buzz; it
is a relational model
that has been used for
years to define the way
human beings interact,
and it is the next step
in the natural evolution
of the Web. Learn how
organization... Jul. 14, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 2,101 | Use JavaScript 2 Today
with OpenLaszlo By RIA News Desk  JavaScript 2 is becoming
increasingly important.
Learn how to take
advantage of JavaScript 2
while still running in
today's browsers.
Leverage your current
JavaScript and HTML
skills to build
applications that run in
Flash 7-9, DHTML and more
with no code changes!... Jul. 14, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 2,458 | Building RIAs Using
Microsoft Silverlight 2 By RIA News Desk  Many of today (and
tomorrow's) development
projects lend themselves
nicely to RIA application
patterns. Silverlight
offers a compelling RIA
development experience
that works on Linux, the
mac and windows as well
as all major browsers.
With HD video, vector
based g... Jul. 14, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 3,414 | FLEX + AIR + Mobile By RIA News Desk In this session Thomas
will share his experience
in migrating from AJAX to
Flex, the
advantages/disadvantages
that Flex has as the
primary client for a
consumer web-based SaaS
product, and his vision
of how Flex + AIR via any
desktop + Mobile (in one
or more techn... Jul. 11, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 884 | Do RIA Widgets Open
Security Back Doors? By RIA News Desk  By producing a popular
RIA widget you can
distribute your code to
millions of users
practically overnight.
Most widgets are designed
to gather data from the
web and then present that
data to the user. In
order to enable this
functionality, Google
Gadgets for examp... Jul. 11, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 977 | Building RIAs Using
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) By RIA News Desk  Rich Internet
Applications using AJAX
technology has truly
improved the end user
experience. But, as a
developer if you are new
to it, be warned: AJAX
projects can quickly
degenerate into a
nightmare of spaghetti
script. Large JavaScript
technology code bases are ... Jul. 11, 2008 01:45 PM Reads: 1,003 | Server-Side JavaScript -
All the Cool Kids Are
Doing It! By RIA News Desk  In this session that no
developer who uses
JavaScript or
ActionScript will want to
miss, delegates will
learn how to: Overcome
common hurdles and
pitfalls of client-side
only JavaScript
development. Speed up
development time by
cutting out extra
server-side co... Jul. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 1,353 | Building AJAX Mashups
with Google APIs By RIA News Desk  This session will cover
how to integrate various
Google APIs including
Google's AJAX APIs
including Maps, AJAX
Search and Feed into
superior AJAX mashups.
The session also shows
how to use Google's App
Engine as an AJAX Web
application provider.
Finally, this sess... Jul. 11, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 947 | Crafting Rich Web
Interfaces By RIA News Desk  In every field of design
one of the first things
students do is learn from
the work of others. They
study and break down
real-world examples in
order to understand the
underlying principles and
patterns that make for
successful design. Then
they learn to apply these... Jul. 11, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 875 | Reporting Portals -
Creating the No-Pain,
All-Gain Customer
Experience By RIA News Desk  As any successful
marketer knows,
understanding customer
needs and designing an
experience tailored to
those needs contributes
to the overall success of
the product. Whether the
portal is private, such
as an intranet-based
reporting tool, or
public, such as an
e... Jul. 11, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 951 | IA and RIA - You Know
More Than You Think You
Do By RIA News Desk  For the last couple of
years, there has been a
lot of giddiness around
the creation or Rich
Internet Applications or
RIAs. Their fluidity,
animation and ability to
present and manipulate
large amounts of data
makes them readily
appealing to businesses
that want to... Jul. 11, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 981 | High Performance in Rich
Web Apps: Five Practical
Strategies and How to
Implement Them By RIA News Desk  Those of us in the
business of writing rich
Internet applications
have seen the focus swing
from how to add richness
to how to manage richness
and the resources it
demands in the browser.
Steve Souders's recent
volume from O'Reilly,
High Performance Web
Sites, and... Jul. 11, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 954 |
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