http://web2journal.com/ Latest articles from RIA News Desk Copyright 2008 WEB 2.0 JOURNAL Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:20:00 GMT WEB 2.0 JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://web2journal.com/read/587865.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/587865.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:45:00 GMT 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 Events is delighted to be presenting major industry keynotes from the two industry executives with overall responsibility for both of those massive richer-web initiatives: Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch and Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform. http://web2journal.com/read/600247.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/600247.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:45:00 GMT Catalyst Resources released a 'green audit' of their software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaborative workspace project that allows distributed business teams of all sizes to work virtually and seamlessly online. The Rich Internet Application (RIA) enabled Catalyst Resources to reduce its carbon impact footprint by 21,000 lbs of CO2 per month, while simultaneously reducing expenses and increasing billable activities by nearly 20%. http://web2journal.com/read/600288.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/600288.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:45:00 GMT Curl announced that the University of Hawaii at Manoa will be leveraging the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform this year for an independent study project entitled 'Anti-Keylogger for Secure Web Applications.' Curl was selected as the technology for the course because of its easy-to-learn programming language and strong security features for developing Web-based applications. http://web2journal.com/read/603226.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/603226.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:30:00 GMT 'Until now it has been extremely challenging to search the millions of RIAs and dynamic content on the Web, so we are leading the charge in improving search of content that runs in Adobe Flash Player,' said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe, as Adobe today announced it is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). http://web2journal.com/read/599817.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/599817.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMT Following the private Beta release last month, DreamFace Interactive announced the general availability of the DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Adobe Flex. As promised, DreamFace-Fx is the first Mashup Kit to reach developers in a comprehensive roadmap which will extend the DreamFace Open Source Web 2.0 Framework to include complementary technologies. Olivier Poupeney, DreamFace Interactive CEO explains the choice of Adobe Flex for the first Mashup Kit, 'There is a need today for RIA technologies in SOA applications, and Flex is getting attraction from the Java community thanks to its smooth integration with J2EE, however, using Flex usually means abandoning AJAX with the risk of being linked to a single technology. With DreamFace-Fx, developers can easily integrate Flex and AJAX, leveraging the combined technologies and resulting in functionality greater than the sum of its parts.' http://web2journal.com/read/599183.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/599183.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT Curl made available the newest example of a Curl Nitro 'fit client' application. Designed by Manuel Lima, the founder of VisualComplexity.com, the CurlGraph features a visual representation of the social graph of individual Facebook members. Using the desktop-based application, users can visualize a circle of up to 128 friends from an established Facebook account, enabling them to see relationships and navigate quickly through that friend data to find the information they want. Through this demo application, Curl showcases its ability to support a visually engaging, interactive desktop application that is deployed like a Web application. http://web2journal.com/read/597068.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/597068.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:00:00 GMT Curl has made available the newest example of a Curl Nitro 'fit client' application. Designed by Manuel Lima, the founder of VisualComplexity.com, the CurlGraph features a visual representation of the social graph of individual Facebook members. Using the desktop-based application, users can visualize a circle of up to 128 friends from an established Facebook account, enabling them to see relationships and navigate through that friend data to find the information they want. http://web2journal.com/read/595375.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/595375.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:30:00 GMT Farallon Geographics and its design partner Stamen Designs have been selected by the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) to develop a Rich Internet Application (RIA) for the next generation of its 'California Health Care Atlas'. The new Web-based atlas will integrate interactive mapping, reporting, and charting elements with a dynamic real-time interface to tell the healthcare story in California, allowing a broad spectrum of users the ability to investigate and learn about the human health and healthcare landscape in California. http://web2journal.com/read/585941.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/585941.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:30:00 GMT 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 to their own set of problems. The real trick is to apply them in a nuanced manner. To be nuanced is 'to be sensitive to delicate differences of style.' Most of the art in crafting a rich experience on the Web can be summed up with this one word - 'nuance'. http://web2journal.com/read/588362.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/588362.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:45:00 GMT Many of today (and tomorrow's) development projects lend themselves nicely to RIA application patterns. Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team at Microsoft, is giving a breakout session at the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference in October which will use the 100% free Silverlight runtime and Visual Studio tools to show delegates how Silverlight offers a compelling RIA development experience that works on Linux, the Mac and Windows as well as all major browsers. http://web2journal.com/read/582542.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/582542.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:15:00 GMT Server-side JavaScript (SSJS) is growing in popularity fast since developers realize it can drastically simplify Web app creation by letting you use using the same technology stack on both the client and the server. While server-side JavaScript is not new - it was a part of Netscape's vision 10 years ago - times have significantly changed with 10x faster hardware and networks, making that original vision for the Web now a reality. http://web2journal.com/read/585204.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/585204.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT 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. Unfortunately, rich platforms tend to lead to programming errors and security issues. The users of a poorly written RIA widget can have their online accounts breached, web site passwords compromised, local computer data stolen, and even lose control of their computer. http://web2journal.com/read/572826.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/572826.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:30:00 GMT According to Jnan Dash, Chief Strategy Officer of Curl, 2008 and beyond will see increased adoption of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. 'But the door for this entry will be RIAs (Rich Internet Applications),' Dash notes, 'rather than mash-ups or blogs or wikis.' An industry veteran who spent ten years at Oracle Corporation and was the Group Vice President, Systems Architecture and Technology till 2002, Dash adds: 'Big players like Microsoft (Silverlight) and Adobe (AIR - Adobe Integrated Runtime) have joined the race for RIA. But they lack the critical dimensions of scalability, performance, and security, very important for large enterprises.' http://web2journal.com/read/575636.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/575636.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:15:00 GMT '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,' says Eric Miraglia, one of the world's leading experts on 'advanced JavaScript utilities and widgets' - who works for Yahoo!'s Presentation Platform Team and will be speaking in October at SYS-CON's 6th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (October 20-22, 2008). http://web2journal.com/read/576873.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/576873.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:15:00 GMT 'The Co-Web, the collaborative, media converged web, is upon us,' says Andrew Donoho, Web Theorist with IBM's Emerging Internet Technology Team, who will be speaking in October at SYS-CON's 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (October 20-22, 2008). Donoho been creating and pushing implementations of the bi-directional web since 1999 and has been extending that idea to building a Co-Web with a scalable UI for the last 18 months. http://web2journal.com/read/585264.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/585264.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:15:00 GMT Nicholas Thomas, co-founder and COO of Finicity, believes that Flex + AIR via any desktop + Mobile (in one or more technical forms) can take us a step towards the vision that Mark Weiser presented in his original works on ubiquitous computing. As the primary client for a consumer web-based SaaS product, Flex has both advantages and disadvantages, according to Thomas. http://web2journal.com/read/582662.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/582662.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:15:00 GMT The OpenAjax Alliance has recently published two new white papers, one on Mobile AJAX and one on recent browser advances. The first white paper, Introduction to Mobile AJAX for Developers, provides an overview of AJAX application development for mobile devices. The second white paper, Good News for AJAX - The Browser Wars Are Back, highlights the major changes in the browser world that are manifesting themselves in this year's browser releases (i.e., IE8, Firefox3, Safari 3.1, Opera 9.x). http://web2journal.com/read/586464.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/586464.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:45:00 GMT With over 150 bug fixes, Java 5 language support, new compiler optimizations, default visual themes, an entirely new DOM API and JavaScript overlay types, the release candidate of Google Web Toolkit 1.5 has gotten very positive feedback from early adopters, reports Google's Kelly Norton. http://web2journal.com/read/585982.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/585982.htm Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:15:00 GMT Curl is executing on the next phase in its Eclipse strategy with the availability of the beta versions of the new Eclipse-based Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) development tools. The first release of the Curl Development tools for Eclipse (CDE) and newest release of the Curl Runtime Environment (RTE), Version 6.0.4, provide enterprise developers with the tools to build and deploy their mission-critical, enterprise-class RIAs within the increasingly popular Eclipse environment. http://web2journal.com/read/584543.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/584543.htm Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:45:00 GMT 'I'm looking forward to helping Appcelerator shake up the rich Internet application market,' said Bearden. 'Companies are struggling with how to take advantage of all the money and time they've poured into SOA. Appcelerator answers the question once and for all by enabling them to build rich applications on top of that SOA infrastructure.' http://web2journal.com/read/567794.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/567794.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:30:00 GMT 'Should CFML developers switch to Java?' asks Andrew Powell in an article this week at SYS-CON.com. 'No,' he answers. ColdFusion is the fastest way to get data to AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, and even JavaFX, according to Powell, who adds: 'ColdFusion also provides complex services easier than Java, .NET, Ruby or whatever wishes they could.' http://web2journal.com/read/579654.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/579654.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:30:00 GMT 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 2, uses both. In a recent interview he says 'We use each kind of interchangeably. Mostly we just call them RIAs now.' http://web2journal.com/read/579128.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/579128.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:15:00 GMT 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 that transition to happen with things like AIR,' Lynch noted, adding: 'We're focused on taking advantage of that shift, not only with our enabling technologies, but also our applications like Premiere Express, Photoshop Express and BuzzWord.' http://web2journal.com/read/581508.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/581508.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:15:00 GMT Nexaweb announced it has contributed new software to the Dojo Foundation that will further advance the use of open source AJAX within a company's critical business applications. The software, dubbed 'dojo.E,' will allow users to more easily create enterprise Web applications based on the Dojo Toolkit, one of the industry's most advanced sets of open source AJAX tools. http://web2journal.com/read/581840.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/581840.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT Cynergy Systems announced it has been selected as a finalist for the 2008 Helios Apollo Awards. In conjunction with the Washington, D.C. metropolitan chapters for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SmartCEO magazine, Helios HR, a provider of outsourced human resources and HR consulting, has chosen to honor Cynergy as a local company dedicated to promoting employee development. http://web2journal.com/read/582244.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/582244.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:00:00 GMT Curl announced the general availability of the Curl Run Time Environment (RTE) for Macintosh. The Curl RTE is the engine of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform that executes Curl applications and renders code, content and graphics on client machines. As a result of this release, Macintosh users can now take advantage of the same enterprise-class features of the Curl RTE that are already offered to Windows and Linux users. http://web2journal.com/read/577802.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/577802.htm Fri, 30 May 2008 01:15:00 GMT Curl announced the results from a recent performance benchmark test of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, Version 6.0, and Adobe Flex 3. The test aimed to compare the performance of these two RIA platforms and found the Curl language to outperform ActionScript 3, the programming language of the Adobe Flash Player runtime, by a factor of 8 to 10. This finding is particularly significant for developers seeking highly productive ways to build mission-critical, enterprise-class RIAs that require high performance capabilities. http://web2journal.com/read/576368.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/576368.htm Wed, 28 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT National Instruments announced Measurement Studio 8.5 to add test and measurement functionality to the latest Microsoft development environment with a complete set of .NET class libraries, tools and NI data acquisition driver support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Measurement Studio 8.5 includes ASP.NET AJAX-compatible user interface controls and advanced network variable communication functions for creating highly responsive remote monitoring Web applications. http://web2journal.com/read/576793.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/576793.htm Wed, 28 May 2008 14:30:00 GMT Nearly four years after its initial release, Ruby on Rails is edging ever closer to version 2.1. Rails 0.5 was released June 24 of 2004, and its creator David Heinemeier Hansson hopes that v2.1, currently in release candidate state, will be out any moment. 'We've been adding a ton of extra deliciously nice goodies in preparation of its release,' blogged Heinemeier Hansson just last month. http://web2journal.com/read/479767.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/479767.htm Sun, 25 May 2008 10:30:00 GMT In SYS-CON's annual round-up of technology predictions earlier this year, Brad Abrams, a Group Program Manager at Microsoft, highlighted the likelihood of what he called 'the UX meme of the consumer facing world [leaking] into the enterprise' and noted: 'The days of the battleship gray, forms of data application as the king of the enterprise are numbered because of an imperative towards richer visualization of complex and interconnected data. While there will always be a need for the traditional sort of application, by the end of 2008, it is no longer the only element of the corporate landscape.' http://web2journal.com/read/571595.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/571595.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT 'Businesses today are looking to build on the success of their existing technology investments with a future-proof architecture that will support continued enhancements to their enterprise applications,' said Jeremy Chone, newly-appointed CTO of Nexaweb. 'Jeremy brings a great balance of Web 2.0 and enterprise application software management and leadership experience to our team,' said Chris Heidelberger, chief executive officer, Nexaweb. http://web2journal.com/read/570757.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/570757.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT Backbase introduced Enterprise AJAX 4.2 for Java, a new Java version of the AJAX framework. This new release offers a complete AJAX solution for Java developers, with support for all popular Java frameworks, including Struts, Spring MVC and Java Server Faces (JSF). Backbase Enterprise AJAX for Java is an AJAX framework that actively supports multiple server-side Java Frameworks. Global 2000 companies can therefore standardize on a single AJAX platform, rather than use a patchwork of various open source AJAX libraries. http://web2journal.com/read/550350.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/550350.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT WaveMaker announced the release of Visual AJAX Studio version 3.2. The new version introduces a beta installer for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and full support for the Safari Browser, bringing WaveMaker's drag-and-drop Java development to the Mac. http://web2journal.com/read/553185.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/553185.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT ILOG announced that its latest graphics toolkits for the .NET platform are aimed at helping Microsoft developers create rich internet applications (RIA), specifically interactive and visually-rich diagrams and Gantt charts. ILOG Diagrammer for .NET 1.5 and ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.5, ILOG's graphics toolkits for creating diagrams and Gantt charts for the .NET platform, now support Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and ASP.NET AJAX for RIA development. http://web2journal.com/read/553295.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/553295.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT Zapatec introduced the Zapatec AJAX E-mail Client, the second in a series of self-contained modules designed for integration into Web 2.0 applications. Zapatec's AJAX E-mail Client enables developers to add needed web-based e-mail functionality to their applications, freeing them to focus on their core business. http://web2journal.com/read/569149.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/569149.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 13:45:00 GMT DreamFace DataWidgets have gotten a lot of press lately, but what are Woodgets? DreamFace Interactive CEO, Olivier Poupeney gets specific about woodgets while presenting key differentiators of DreamFace's Web 2.0 Open Source Framework in his interview with Jeremy Geelan for SYS-CON.TV at AjaxWorld 2008 East in New York. http://web2journal.com/read/563623.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/563623.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 13:15:00 GMT 'When was the last time you heard about a cool web app that wasn't written in Rails or PHP?' asks Chris Keene, CEO of WaveMaker, in an article published today at SYS-CON.com. 'OK, people still build lots of cool stuff in Java,' Keene continues, 'but the love is gone and it's just a day job now.' http://web2journal.com/read/568168.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/568168.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 07:45:00 GMT Alpha Software is now shipping Alpha Five Platinum Edition, the ninth release of the company's flagship Web database development platform. It's a development tool that can visually build AJAX-powered applications, integrate SQL databases with drag+drop simplicity, and deliver enterprise-scale availability, without having to write pages of computer code. And while coding is optional, Alpha Five's integrated development environment (IDE) still gives developers full access to forms, interactive reports, browsers, Web components, APIs, XML, and more. It's packed with 200 reusable ActionScripts, 'Supercontrols,' HTML and CSS builders, the full Xbasic/Xdialog language, Portable SQL, and 'Genies' that generate editable code for any custom requirement. http://web2journal.com/read/564387.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/564387.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT frevvo announced Live Forms software which enables users and developers to easily create rich AJAX forms with built-in business capabilities. Live Forms provides a complete Web-based design experience that can be embedded into any application and is ideal for Enterprise Social Software companies, BPM/SOA vendors, Web hosting providers and solution providers. http://web2journal.com/read/543957.htmhttp://web2journal.com/read/543957.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 02:30:00 GMT Curl announced it has released the availability of an Ubuntu Installer for the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. Curl is a Rich Internet Application platform that competes with Adobe AIR/Flex, Silverlight, and Ajax. Curl has been shipping with Linux support for RedHat 9, SusE 9, and Turbolinux 10 and 11. Ubuntu is the latest Linux platform Curl 6.0 supports. Curl 6.0 also supports Microsoft Windows (XP, and Vista) as well as a beta version for Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel).