Comments on: Building Rich Internet Applications with Frameworks

By: Lorena

Lorena — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:39:21 +0000

This explanation its great to understand ria, and i believe everything will be useful more and more to develop websites. Thanks!

By: Ged

Ged — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:36:26 +0000

I think this article deserves an update, after the news that Adobe has kille mobile flash and will abandon Flex to open source community.

By: simple developer

simple developer — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:21:22 +0000

Yes I agree it is true that javascript is the prefered solution for most people. Sorry but I believe that javascript is not required. Just an another ecmascript like…
I prefer ActionScript :)

By: web informer

web informer — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:00:30 +0000

is that right as i heard RIA is not only about technology and RIA technology offers more user interface components. Developers need not rely on typical HTML conventions to build their applications.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:09:32 +0000

JavaScript Libraries making web development process much easier,I just can’t imagine creating complex effects without using jquery. Regarding xml handling with javascript I have developed small Library called softxpath.

By: David Wheatley

David Wheatley — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:55:31 +0000

Thanks, Great Article…

By: Sami BOUSSACSOU

Sami BOUSSACSOU — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:18:15 +0000

thank you for this great article , i like it, you didn’t mention all RIA frameworks beacause i know another RIA technologies such as zk (http://www.zkoss.org) I used it in my last project it’s good, very easy and popular.

By: Eric Rowell

Eric Rowell — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:59:01 +0000

Great point Oliver! For regular web applications, I totally agree that they should probably be built using a JavaScript library like jQuery, YUI, or ExtJS. However, if you are creating a very rich application that uses a lot of graphical components (like a game or graphical planning tool) I have found that Flash can sometimes be more appropriate.

Good point on Silverlight and JavaFX also. I agree that these two technologies don’t have enough traction to compete with JavaScript libraries, HTML5, and Flash, so I didn’t spend as much time covering them.

By: Olivier Refalo

Olivier Refalo — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:43:48 +0000

I read this article and I am surprise to see missing references and wrong market directions. Today it would be crazy to consider a RIA without Javascript at its center: Adobe Flash is well positioned (but is about to be taken over by html5), M$ Silverlight has tried, JavaFX is almost inexistent.

They all failed because of one reason: they are not open technologies. All these solutions are proprietary solution and won’t get commitment from the masses.

On the other hand: HTML5, CSS and JS are standard open technologies.

Two of the major RIA initiatives (both take Javascript as the corner stone) are:

GWT the google web toolkit – Elegant solution which dynamically translated Java code to Javascript.
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

and even more important is the Cappuccino framework
http://cappuccino.org/

Cappucino provides a rich component model to build applications. Applications can be run from the browser or as standalone applications (yet using the same internet technologies).

Here are a few example of applications built with it:
http://280slides.com/
http://almost.at/
http://githubissues.heroku.com/

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:03:14 +0000

Great post :-) Learned something today!