Articles by RIA News Desk

AJAX World RIA Conference: Use JavaScript 2 Today with OpenLaszlo

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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! OpenLaszlo 4.2 includes a new JavaScript 2-based compiler that translates JS2 syntax to a variety of formats, including JS 1.5, Actionscript 1 & 2 and Actionscript 3. When Firefox 4 is out, we'll be ready with native JavaScript 2.0 support! Come learn about this exciting new development, and about the new features designed to make developing complex apps easy, including cross-browser history and vector graphics support.

Oracle Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Oracle's business is information-how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. An enterprise software company, Oracle is a vendor that offers solutions for every tier of your business-database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration. With Oracle, you get information that helps you measure results, improve business processes, and communicate a single truth to your constituents.

AJAX World RIA Conference: AJAX In Enterprise Portals

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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 reality that can be portable across the many JSR-168 portlet containers implementations, in the commercial or open source worlds. During his presentation, we will explain how this has been made possible and how one can write such portlets.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Server-Side, PHP-Generated AJAX

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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 architectures, pushing code to the client adds inherent issues with security and code maintenance. New techniques are being developed which focuses on server-side generated AJAX, allowing developers to code AJAX applications in PHP instead of JavaScript. This session will discuss and demo many of these new techniques which will allow for the development of rich, AJAX user experiences without needing to code any JavaScript whatsoever.

AJAX World RIA Conference: How Linked Data and AJAR Changes Everything

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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 generation of libraries, widgets, and frameworks, that together embrace and extend enterprise data access practices of yore. This session will cover access and exploitation of Web-accessible Linked Data using AJAX- and AJAR-based technologies (Asynchronous JavaScript and RDF).

AJAX World RIA Conference - User Experience and RIAs: How Does It All Come Together?

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

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 science techniques to the process of designing and building a rich Web application.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Spice Up User Experience with Silverlight

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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 shouldn't use Silverlight. No matter whether you have LAMP, ASP.NET or Java Web application, you can take advantage of Silverlight to impress your user with the "Wow" effects.

AJAX World RIA Conference: RIAs & SaaS - Like Bees & Honey

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EDT

25% percent of new business software will be delivered as SaaS by 2011, according to Gartner. RIAs are essential for SaaS applications. But the characteristics of SaaS RIAs can be very distinct from other web applications, including componentization, scalability, unified user experience, and integration with other applications. This session will identify how SaaS is unique from other web applications and how RIAs can expose internal business systems to automate the marketing, trial, purchasing, configuration, support and social referral processes that are essential for scalable and profitable SaaS.

AJAX World RIA Conference: The Business Value of Social Networking on Corporate Intranets

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:30:00 EDT

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.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Web 3.0 and the Age of Intelligence

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:30:00 EDT

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 social networks. This session will map out the world of Web 3.0, exploring the unique benefits for end users, as well as opportunities for businesses. Using specific examples, Jon Doyle will demonstrate how Web 3.0 will change the way users interact with the Web ¬ from planning and booking an entire vacation to automatically scheduling doctor's appointments based on personal preferences.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Preparing Your Brand for the Mobile Web Experience

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:30:00 EDT

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 electronic device they use. What was once a nice-to-have is now the norm, and is quickly becoming an integral part of our culture and society. But how do you connect with users through mobile web sites and create exceptional experiences that are both functional and captivating?

AJAX World RIA Conference: Building Email Apps

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:30:00 EDT

The first email message was sent over 40 years ago and email is the dominant form of electronic communication today, containing a unique data repository with rich context about people’s lives. Given the mass acceptance and potential value of email, it’s worth considering what apps can be built on top of this well-tested, scalable and ubiquitous infrastructure. This session delves into the lessons learned from building TripIt, a travel organizer and social network that enables people to forward their travel confirmation emails to automatically create rich sharable travel itineraries.

AJAX World RIA Conference: HTML 5, WebSocket, and Comet - The Future of the Web

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:15:00 EDT

There are several innovations within the HTML 5 specification that will forever change the direction of the Web, and one in particular - WebSocket - that will revolutionize the way we develop and deploy Web applications. Until now, bi-directional browser communication has been an elusive goal of the Comet community, usually achieved with an assortment of hacks. However, with recent updates to the HTML 5 specification, developers can now use a full-duplex communications channel that operates over a single socket. The HTML 5 WebSocket enables communication from the browser to any TCP-based back-end service (for example, JMS, JMX, IMAP, Jabber, and so on). For example, it is now possible to avoid convoluted architectures by simply channeling certain protocols to the browser over HTTP and Web applications can now be deployed without the need for a traditional Web server.

AJAX World: Enterprise RIA - Real Examples and Lessons Learnt

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:15:00 EDT

With Web as the new platform, it’s very clear that client-server application architecture of yesterday must migrate to the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) of tomorrow. This new RIA platform yields significant improvement to the user experience (UXP) while lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). We will present several cases of real deployment (using Curl RIA Platform) by large customers and discuss the lessons learnt - such as demands for robust scalability, high security, and super high performance. The need for very flexible architecture and agile development will also be covered.

AJAX World RIA Conference - OpenAjax Alliance: Browser Engine Access To Mobile Device APIs

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:45:00 EDT

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 these services were only available to compiled programming languages, such as C++ and Java. By giving Web developers using HTML and JavaScript the same power as C++ and Java, we will see a large wave of next-generation consumer and Enterprise Web 2.0 applications that take innovation and productivity to new levels. These new Mobile AJAX applications run not only in the browser, but also as AJAX-powered mobile widgets and AJAX-powered installed applications. Two challenges, however, are interoperability (because different devices support different APIs), and security (along with the new feature, we also have new vulnerabilities). OpenAjax Alliance is addressing the two challenges through its open standards, open source, and security initiatives.

AJAX World RIA Conference - JavaScript: The Good Parts

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:45:00 EDT

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 parts. In JavaScript there is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. The best nature of JavaScript was so effectively hidden that for many years the prevailing opinion of JavaScript was that it was an unsightly, incompetent abomination. This session will expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being more reliable, readable and maintainable.

AJAX World RIA Conference: The Networked Application Pattern

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:30:00 EDT

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 more servers. This session will explain the motivations of the pattern and look at how it can be implemented using specific AJAX toolkits such as Google Web Toolkit, Yahoo User Interface Library, and Dojo. We will also talk about how the pattern can be implemented using AJAX alternatives such as Flex and Silverlight.

iPhone Developer's Summit: Understanding iPhone JavaScript Extensions

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:00:00 EDT

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 transform the way Web and AJAX developers look at the iPhone for application development. This session introduces the JavaScript extensions, and shows practical examples of their usage.

Build N-Tier Applications with WPF, AJAX, Silverlight, LINQ, WCF

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:45:00 EDT

The advent of .NET 3.5 marks a turning point in how .NET developers approach programming. "It is our belief that .NET 3.5 in general, and Silverlight in particular, will change programming more significantly than anything that has come from Microsoft for a least a decade," state bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz in the preface to their new book, Programming .NET 3.5 ( O'Reilly, US $44.99 ).

AJAX World RIA Conference: The Beauty of JavaScript

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:45:00 EDT

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 JavaScript does, while still being as widely deployed. This talk will spotlight some patterns surrounding JavaScript's most elegant features such as closures, lambdas, object and array literals, object prototypes, private members and dynamic scope resolution -- all without boring you to tears.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Building RIAs Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:45:00 EDT

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 graphics and a rich set of controls including DataGrid Silverlight offers a compelling development experience in nearly any programming language you’d like from C# and VB to JavaScript and Python. Learn how to use Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to retrieve data from the web, and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ. This talk uses the 100% free Silverlight runtime and Visual Studio tools.

AJAX World - Showtime: Bringing the Co-Web to a Screen Near You!

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:15:00 EDT

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 to build a Co-Web page where we all interact on the same data at the same time, see the same context and make better decisions as a result. A Showtime Co-Web application uses the same standards as a normal mashup - OpenAJAX plus XMPP, RTP/RTSP and H.264 - yet remakes the mashup as the Co-Web. For the Co-Web - It's Showtime!

AJAX World: Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:00:00 EDT

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, and implements standards-based styling and layout using CSS and clean HTML. Learn the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and how they integrate together to provide the world's most productive web development experience. This talk uses the 100% free .NET Framework and Visual Studio tools and the resulting application will work with all browsers, Safari, Firefox and of course IE.

Curl Announces General Availability of Curl Development Tools for Eclipse

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Curl announced that it has completed the final phase of its Eclipse development strategy with the general availability release of Curl Development tools for Eclipse (CDE). The CDE is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that provides an environment for developing programs in the Curl language and on the current release of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform, Version 6.0. With the full release of the CDE, programmers can take advantage of the enterprise-class features of the Curl platform within the flexible Eclipse development environment.

Keynote Systems Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:00:00 EDT

Keynote Systems is a provider of on-demand test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience. As an independent third-party, Keynote provides IT and marketing executives with an unbiased view into their Internet services from around the world and enables companies to understand and improve their customer's online and mobile experience. Keynote's test and measurement businesses include: Web performance, mobile quality, streaming & VoIP, and customer experience/UX. Keynote's industry analysis group, Keynote Competitive Research, publishes proprietary studies measuring customer experience and service levels across a wide range of industries.

Appcelerator Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Appcelerator is an open source software company specializing in products and services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) and SOA-based services development. The Appcelerator Platform SDKs enable developers to develop rich AJAX and DHTML applications using cross-browser widgets, a unique Web Expression Language and other open standards-based languages like HTML and CSS - without the use of Javascript. Appcelerator supports most languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, .NET, Python and Perl.

AJAX-based Synology Receives Award

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:06:00 EDT

Synology Disk Station DS207+ scores 5 out of 5 in the categories of features, performance, value for money, and overall evaluation, receiving the Editor's Choice award from Personal Computer World Magazine, UK. After a prudent testing on 8 popular 2-bay NAS servers on the market, the editor, Mr. Paul Monckton, gave the DS207+ the following verdict: "Stunning performance and a mind-boggling level of functionality, yet simple to use.”

Java & Rich Internet Applications: Sun Launches JavaFX SDK Preview Release

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Designed to “deliver content across all the screens of your life,” Sun's rival to Adobe's Flash/Flex - JavaFX - today releases a preview release of the JavaFX SDK, focusing on the RIA workflow. Sun's aim is to help the world's six million Java developers to create RIAs.

Desktop Alert Employs AJAX-based GIS Mapping

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Desktop Alert Inc. a premier provider of network centric emergency mass notification systems to the United States Government pronounced that it has completed its Geographic Information System (GIS) for implementation with the Desktop Alert Mass Notification System. The GIS implementation is the first such implementation worldwide.

WaveMaker Visual AJAX Studio Enables Rapid Application Development for Xignite Web Services

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EDT

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 applications their employees and clients use every day. By combining Xignite's Web services and WaveMaker's Visual AJAX Studio development environment, customers can easily create and deploy a mashup to an existing Web page or dashboard in a matter of minutes.

Themes & Topics at the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:15:00 EDT

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, JavaScript, Mashups, Mobile RIAs, Open APIs & Toolkits, SaaS, Security, Silverlight, Social Software, and User Interface & User eXperience Issues.

Adobe's Kevin Lynch and Microsoft's Scott Guthrie to Keynote AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EDT

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.

A Guide to Rich Internet Application (RIA) Security

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Read about Forrester's findings on RIA security included in a Forrester Research paper valued at $775 titled 'Securing Rich Internet Applications' by Jeffrey Hammond, plus find out about Curl's Security Architecture in a new Curl white paper titled 'Developing Secure Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise' by David Kranz, CTO.

Microsoft's Silverlight Boss on How Silverlight 2 Fits in with Media and RIA Scenarios

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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.'

New NetSuite CRM+ Features Enhance Ease-Of-Use With Advanced AJAX-Powered Workflows

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:45:00 EDT

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 workflows center around step-wise, dynamic user interaction and are now also supported in the new Firefox 3 web browser, along with other unique industry-leading capabilities of NetSuite such as eXtreme list editing, rich-text editing, drag-and-drop and quick-add portlets.

New Nitobi AJAX Suite Released: Complete UI

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:15:00 EDT

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 10 Ajax-powered components that improve user experiences for any Web 2.0 application.

Adobe CTO on the Great Shift From OS-Specific Apps to Web Apps

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:30:00 EDT

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.'

Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE applications into Web 2.0 using GWT

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EDT

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 allows you to write AJAX interfaces in Java -- enables your Java developers to layer a desktop-like interface on top of your Web app. Learn to analyze the service profile of your application, to change HTML views into XML or JSON services, and to resist opening security holes by putting state and control flow logic into the client.

How Linked Data and AJAR Changes Everything

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

AJAX, Cloud Computing & Enterprise Mashups

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EDT

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% % annual growth rate (CAGR) during the next four years. As the acceptance and popularity of SaaS applications has continued to rise dramatically, traditional enterprise integration software has become the Achilles heel of the SaaS industry. Additionally, the wide variety of SaaS vendors specializing in different areas has resulted in companies attempting to stitch together information from a number of different places. Traditional integration software products are inconsistent with the values of SaaS in terms of cost, complexity and time to implement. SOA and XML driven application integrations are very well suited for this purpose. But demand will continue to grow for easy to use, manageable, highly scalable on-demand integration.