2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? The number of different frameworks and libraries is too vast to even consider evaluating a fraction of them.
To make this task manageable, I'm going to narrow things down to three different technologies for delivering enterprise-level Rich Internet Applications. While the first two (JSF and Flex) are proven technologies that have been used for a numbers of years, JavaFX is a new declarative language for building rich user interfaces using Java.
About Max Katz Max Katz is a senior systems engineer at Exadel. He has been helping customers jump-start their RIA development as well as providing mentoring, consulting, and training. Max is a recognized subject-matter expert in the JSF developer community. He has provided JSF/RichFaces training for the past three years, presented at many conferences, and written several published articles on JSF-related topics. Max also leads Exadel's RIA strategy and writes about RIA technologies in his blog, http://mkblog.exadel.com. Max holds a BS in computer science from the University of California, Davis.
Tom Van den Eynde wrote:
It's simple: go with
Adobe Flex - it simply
rocks.
Hmmm wrote: Yes, XForms
sounds good. PicoForms
offers a solution that
would work, and Yahoo has
done their new mobile
back end using
server-side tech. An
on-device XForms
processor would help
write portable mobile
apps.
skalvi wrote: If I want
to write an enterprise
application for my
business and I want my PC
user's to be able to use
it as well as mobile
user's, java will not
work. Web start will
work on the PC but not a
PDA, since I would have
to use a midilet. Same
with flash. I would have
to develop in flash lite
for the PDA's. I would
have to write different
version of the same
program for different
devices. The same with
GWT for the PC based
version. I would have to
write a seperate
application for Android
and the Davlik jvm.
This is where JSF is most
suitable, with the
concept of plugable
rendering kits. Why
can't I just use GWT on
the gphone? Maybe I can.
Maybe we should
hybridize JSF. So what
is the best platform for
write one run anywhere?
anyone?
Confusion Solution wrote:
> The number of
different frameworks and
libraries
> is too vast to even
consider evaluating a
fraction of
> them
So just use Flex instead,
hehe!
Max wrote: @Michael:
Nowhere am I comparing
JSF and Flex, I'm merely
discussing various
technologies and delivery
platforms for RIA
applications. Nowhere am
I saying that one is
better than the other.
I'm not sure why you
would want to hand-code
JavaScript, unless you
are building a framework,
doing a school project or
some research. Do you
consider GWT (Google Web
Toolkit) to be a good
Ajax framework? They do
exactly the same, they
hide the JavaScript from
you.
Michael wrote: sorry, but
comparing JSF and Flex is
ridiculous. JSF has
nothing to do with RIA.
You might say that JSF is
a possibility to build
Ajax apps, but then: why
JSF? It is utterly
unsuited for Ajax
compared to other web
frameworks BECAUSE it
hides the JS from the
dev.
Alex wrote: Good article.
It misses one important
comment though. Your JSF
example has to make a
server call to the pojo
to increment the click
counter, while both Flex
and JavaFX example do not
need to do this because
of their stateful nature,
which is very important.
Out of these three, Flash
Player's UI looks better
than others.
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Verizon Wireless is
snubbing Google's
Linux-based Android
initiative to go with the
LiMo Foundation's mobile
Linux spec for its next
wave of mobile phones
expected next year. Along
with Verizon, Mozilla
signed up - giving the
consortium its first
major open source ISV -
and a key one f
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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
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To make this task manageable, I'm going to narrow things down to three different technologies for delivering enterprise-level Rich Internet Applications. While the first two (JSF and Flex) are proven technologies that have been used for a numbers of years, JavaFX is a new declarative language for building rich user interfaces using Java.
I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience of comparing a
regular movie theater to
a DLP movie theater is
like comparing standard
def analog TV with a
1080i HDTV si
From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discussed in
NYC June 23-24, 2008 by
the world-class speaker
faculty at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roosevelt Hotel, in
midtown 
Verizon Wireless is
snubbing Google's
Linux-based Android
initiative to go with the
LiMo Foundation's mobile
Linux spec for its next
wave of mobile phones
expected next year. Along
with Verizon, Mozilla
signed up - giving the
consortium its first
major open source ISV -
and a key one f
Sun's mule train has
finally pulled into
Indiana after three years
on the road. Indiana is
the Linux-friendly
Fedora-like OpenSolaris
project meant to move the
Solaris-shy Linux
community off Linux and
on to Solaris tempted by
Solaris widgetry like the
highly scalable,
rollback-easy, 1
