Articles by RIA News Desk

Curl Offers RIA and AJAX Education

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT

Curl announced the availability of three interactive training courses based on the Curl Web-Based Training (CurlWBT), a standards-based e-learning framework implemented in the Curl language that supports the deployment of Web-based training materials for the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform. These courses are available to members of the Curl Developer Community, helping them further shorten the already minimal learning curve for building enterprise-class RIAs using Curl.

Neotys Named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Neotys is a leader in easy-to-use, cost effective stress and load testing tools for Web 2.0 Applications. Since 2005, Neotys has been helping its clients in more than 40 countries to ensure their applications' reliability, performance and quality. NeoLoad, load testing solution for RIAs, ensures better efficiency to perform your tests faster, while providing pertinent analyses and full support for all new technologies. NeoLoad is one of the first web application testing tools to fully support Adobe Flex 3 and the AMF protocol. NeoLoad also perfectly handles other RIA applications that exchange data in text or XML formats over HTTP/S like AJAX, GWT or Silverlight applications.

ILOG To Exhibit At SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:06:00 EDT

ILOG delivers software that empowers their customers to make better decisions, faster. Over 2,000 global corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's visualization, business rule management system and optimization software components to achieve dramatic returns on investment, and create market-defining products and services. Visit us to learn about ILOG JViews, our customizable Java and AJAX display components for building diagrams, dashboards, maps, schedules and charts. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 730 people worldwide.

MacsDesign Releases Version 9, AJAX-enabled Web Help Desk

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:30:00 EDT

MacsDesign Studio LLC, developers of the cross-platform help desk software solution, Web Help Desk, announced the availability of Version 9, a major update to its flagship service management solution. Web Help Desk Software Version 9 adds rules-based voting and approval process for change requests, an extensible plug-in architecture for popular 3rd party asset management tools, and an AJAX enhanced user interface. Version 9 remains truly cross-platform, with server side installers for Mac OS X Server, Windows Server, Linux, and Unix.

AJAX-enabled ProcessMaker Certified Through Intel

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:30:00 EDT

Colosa, a developer of business process management (BPM) software that enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to simplify workflow through the automation of paper-based processes, has announced that its flagship solution, ProcessMaker, is one of the first applications to achieve certification through the Intel Certified Solutions Program and will be available on the Intel Business Exchange. The Intel Business Exchange is an online marketplace for small and medium businesses to search for and buy software specifically geared towards their special needs.

Advanced Millennium Technologies to Distribute Lightstreamer’s COMET Products in India

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:25:00 EDT

Advanced Millennium Technologies (AMT) has inked a partnership agreement with Lightstreamer. According to the agreement, AMT will distribute Lightstreamer push technology (COMET) products in the fast growing Indian Market. Lightstreamer is a push server for live data distribution based on the AJAX-Comet paradigm (also known as “AJAX Push”). In web development, COMET is a term used to describe a web application model in which a web server is able to push real-time data to a browser, based on a subscription paradigm. Lightstreamer is one of the oldest products used widely for COMET implementations.

WaveMaker CEO to Present “AJAX for the Cloud” Session at AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:15:00 EDT

The computing forecast, quips WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene, calls for continuing heavy clouds. But what are the technical issues for building AJAX applications in the cloud? What is the most productive way to build AJAX applications for deployment to EC2? These and allied enterprise IT questions will be answered in Keene's upcoming session at the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, to be held October 20-22, 2008, in San Jose, California.

MyEclipse Delivers Advanced AJAX Tools for Ganymede

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:15:00 EDT

Genuitec announced the availability of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.0 milestone 1. This milestone release delivers advanced AJAX tooling for Java EE and full Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities for Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede, among other enhancements.

WebSphere Gets An AJAX Booster Shot, Eclipse Ganymede Support

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:30:00 EDT

Genuitec announced the availability of the first milestone release of MyEclipse 7.0 Blue Edition. This release provides WebSphere developers with advanced AJAX tooling, enhanced reporting technologies and Eclipse 3.4 support, among other enhancements.

WaveMaker Introduces Point and Click AJAX

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:30:00 EDT

WaveMaker announced the release of WaveMaker Visual AJAX Studio 4.0. WaveMaker Studio is an open source development tool that makes it easy to build visually stunning web applications. With just 15 mouse clicks and zero coding, a developer can build and deploy a sleek, web-based application using WaveMaker.

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

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:45:00 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).

Tealium Announces Tealium TrackEvent for RIA

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Tealium Incorporated, a provider of high-end, results-oriented Web analytics consulting, announced the availability of Tealium TrackEvent, a solution designed to decouple development from web analytics implementation of rich internet applications (RIA) such as Flash, Flex and Ajax sites. Tealium TrackEvent has been designed to work with any tag-based web analytics solution, including Omniture, Unica, Coremetrics, Google Analytics, and others. It allows web developers to send generic RIA calls from their applications. It then provides business users with an interface to transform these calls into requests specific to their web analytics solution.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Building AJAX Mashups with Google APIs

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:30:00 EDT

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 session will also show how to socialize your AJAX applications using the OpenSocial APIs and Google Friend Connect.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Do RIA Widgets Open Security Back Doors?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EDT

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 example support a rich programming model based on based on JavaScript and the Gadgets' API. 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. This presentation, via code snippets, flow diagrams, and other means, discusses how to write an RIA widget that avoids these pitfalls.

Sun Releases AJAX-Compatible NetBeans 6.5 IDE

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EDT

A beta release of the open source NetBeans 6.5 IDE is being offered by Sun Microsystems on Wednesday. The beta, available for download, has features such as an IDE-wide "QuickSearch" shortcut, a more user-friendly interface, and an automatic Compile on Save feature. Developers can build applications for Java, PHP, C/C++, Groovy, Grails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and AJAX.

AJAX RIA Toolset for IBM WebSphere Platform Released

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:15:00 EDT

The AJAX for IBM WebSphere Platform Early Program is an optionally installable product extension for IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition that offers targeted, incremental new features that can make Web applications running on WebSphere Application Server easier to use.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Building RIAs Using Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:15:00 EDT

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 often hard to write, read, test, and debug--not to mention the complexity of efficiently supporting multiple browsers. If you are a Java developer, you have another choice - the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT is a lightweight, reusable Java technology framework has taken a unique approach to developing rich internet applications to wrangle AJAX coding issues. The Google Web Toolkit addresses code reuse, performance, multibrowser support, debugging, and testing AJAX applications.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Practical Thin Server Architecture with Dojo

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:15:00 EDT

Dojo is arguably the most feature-complete AJAX toolkit today. Using Dojo's data stores to create a clean separation of concerns from the server-side, this talk gives practical advice for implementing all rendering of data in the browser, leading to a much thinner server, which focus on business-logic only.

Contextware Delivers AJAX Technology

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Contextware announced the release of version 3.1 of its namesake software. Contextware v3.1 improves execution by helping businesses capture and communicate rich detail on how to perform any business process, procedure or best practice.

NBC Olympic Coverage Shines as Silverlight Proving Ground

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Michael Phelps is not the only one breaking records and winning gold at the Olympics in Beijing. If Microsoft's Silverlight continues to have the success it has had in streaming video coverage of the Olympic Games around the world, it could mean gold for Microsoft as the software giant continues its competition with Adobe and that company's ubiquitous Flash technology.

AJAX World RIA Conference - Extreme RIA: Developing Customer Solutions in an Evolving Landscape

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:00:00 EDT

In this talk, ILOG's Chief RIA Architect and Project Manager will share his experiences working with customers on RIA projects. He will describe requirements of RIA, the market acceptance, and technical limitations based on various approaches. The session will also include a live RIA demo on many different platforms.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Spice Up User Experience with Silverlight

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:15:00 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: Making the Business Case for RIAs in the SME Market

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:45:00 EDT

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can benefit from RIAs for all the same reasons large enterprises can: enhanced user experience and resulting customer loyalty, decreased development and deployment costs, and increased employee productivity. But how do you persuade a manager with limited resources to invest in RIA development? Learn to make a persuasive business case with rational arguments like return on investment analysis and emotional ones like leveraging social proof. Whether you are an employee in an SME or an external consultant that wants to get work from one, you'll learn skills to help you make the RIA case.

AJAX World RIA Conference - Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications Into Web 2.0 Using GWT

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:00:00 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.

AJAX World RIA Conference: AJAX Opens The Door To The Enterprise Software Suite

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

In this presentation, David Knight will discuss how the availability of an AJAX platform for aggregating and monetizing content is likely to dramatically transform the enterprise software business, with end-user companies no longer locked into a single software-suite provider for their applications. He will examine how AJAX-enabled platforms can be used to recreate the suite experience in multiple application areas, freeing companies to shop around for the best solution available ¬ or create their own application. The speaker will also discuss how AJAX can allow businesses to recreate the desktop experience and enhance worker productivity with integrated applications.

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

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:15:00 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.

'Google Translate' Uses AJAX to Optimize iPhone

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Proving necessity is the mother of all invention, Google’s mobile team has developed an iPhone interface for Google Translate.

Top Keynotes at SYS-CON's World-Beating RIA Conference & Expo: AJAX World

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:45:00 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.

AJAX World RIA Conference: FLEX+ AIR + Mobile

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

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 technical forms) takes us a step towards the vision that Mark Weiser presented in his original works on ubiquitous computing.

AJAX World RIA Conference - Design-based Web Applications Development: The Essential New Paradigm

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Design is the single most important criterion that determines a successful web application, yet web application development tools are totally oriented around programming and exclude designers from all but the initial stages of the development life-cycle. There is growing debate now emerging: do designers need to learn programming or do programmers need to learn design? The profound difference in these two disciplines makes such hybrid skills extremely unlikely. Time, then, for a new paradigm, where web application development is abstracted into a primarily design-focused discipline, with programmer input reduced to a relatively small, though necessary part of the process.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Server-Side JavaScript - All the Cool Kids Are Doing It!

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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 code and processing scripts that are no longer necessary, and Clean up your code base by reducing (or even eliminating) the number of languages needed to leverage to accomplish common tasks (i.e. Why bother with server-side PHP scripts to fetch database results when you can do it all in JavaScript on the server? Why mess with Curl to fetch content that your JavaScript code can grab in one line?)

AJAX World RIA Conference: Crafting Rich Web Interfaces

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:00 EDT

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'. Over the last 24 years Bill has been involved in the study of nuanced design in crafting rich interfaces. Prior to joining Netflix, Bill led the effort to launch the public Yahoo! Design Pattern Library where he cataloged many examples of common design patterns. More recently Bill has been working on an upcoming O'Reilly book on design that explores the nuance of rich Web interfaces.

AJAX World RIA Conference: IA and RIA - You Know More Than You Think You Do

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:45:00 EDT

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 go beyond the linear processes that HTML web sites offer. They are becoming more common and the demand from clients is increasing. What’s the buzz about? In this session Travelocity's Principal Information Architect will share his experience and some things he has learned about RIAs that validated much of what he already knew.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Reporting Portals - Creating the No-Pain, All-Gain Customer Experience

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:45:00 EDT

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 enterprise application delivering time-sensitive data over the web, user experience needs will be similar. Recognizing these needs and incorporating them into the portal design will give users reasons to want to shop with confidence. Using the analogy of a retail giant, this session will provide some guidelines for creating a rich User Interface for reporting portals, providing a no-pain, all-gain customer experience.

AJAX World RIA Conference - Coding the UI: Lessons from ebookers and Orbitz

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:30:00 EDT

When Orbitz released a new generation of its global technology platform to power ebookers.com there were some lofty goals for the UI. They wanted to build a presentation tier (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) that would meet the goals of internationalization, accessibility, have rich AJAX interactions, and be faster and easier to develop in. This session will explore the key challenges in achieving these goals, including what worked, what didn't, and what's next.

AJAX World RIA Conference - High Performance in RIAs: Five Practical Strategies and How to Implement Them

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:30:00 EDT

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 the canonical performance rules Steve pioneered with the Exceptional Performance Team at Yahoo in recent years have helped bring data-driven order to the lore that surrounds browser performance.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Who Says Web 2.0 is Hard? Modernize Your Applications without Needing a PhD in AJAX

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:45:00 EDT

Web applications continue to evolve to support a far richer user experience than in the early days of the Internet. However, delivering these solutions adds complexity and demands additional programming skills. This session provides an overview of how the innovative IBM Rational technology delivered through its new Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) capabilities, helps dramatically simplify the construction of rich user interfaces and their integration with back-end services, transactional systems, and data sources for any platform, including System z and System i. This revolutionary approach enables companies to leverage their valuable IT assets into state-of-the-art SOA-based and web solutions in record time while leveraging existing skills.

AJAX World RIA Conference - AJAX for Oracle: Building RIAs Without Browser Plug-ins

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Enterprise developers (and users) definitely want Web 2.0 features, but unfortunately very few of them have the time to learn and keep up with the swift pace of advancement in AJAX. One approach to solving this problem is to take a bunch of AJAX features and bake them into APIs stored in a database that can be called using simple declarative markup language. In this session John Krahulec will show how the the application server middle tier can be virtualized into the Oracle database, bridging the gap between front-end rich UI and back-end data systems.

AJAX World RIA Conference: AJAX with jQuery

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:30:00 EDT

jQuery is a rapidly growing, popular JavaScript library. Its powerful and modular architecture, which emphasizes a simple yet heavily extensible API, has helped it to become one of the most popular Javascript Libraries. Because of its dead-simple plug-in architecture, many even begin extending jQuery's core features within hours of first using it. This talk will demonstrate how the library works, and show you why so many users are able to build fully Ajax-enabled Websites in their first day using jQuery.

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

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:00:00 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.