Articles by RIA News Desk

AJAX World RIA Conference: Building RIAs Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:30:00 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 RIA Conference - How To Build On-Demand Business Apps Using Force.com & Flex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:15:00 EDT

Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the Web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from traditional computing to SaaS has been ease of use through vendors' careful attention to the user experience utilizing RIA technologies. This jointly presented session will present how RIA technologies such as AJAX and Flex - in combination with the Force.com platform - provide all the tools necessary for developers to build an enterprise-class application - sometimes within hours!

AJAX World RIA Conference - Flex, Flash and Loosely Coupled On Demand

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Adobe Flex and Flash are the ideal technology for Rich Internet Applications because you can build those applications with reusable components that are Loosely Coupled. In his session, learn how you can create an On-Demand Authoring Environment for creating Rich Internet Applications bound to any database or web service using Flex 2 and Flash CS4.

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

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:15:00 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

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:00:00 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 to RichFaces became a reality that can be portable across the many JSR-168 portlet containers implementations, in the commercial or open source worlds. During this presentation, we will explain how this has been made possible and how one can write such portlets.

AJAX World RIA Conference - Bringing Voice and Messaging to Flash and AIR

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Director of Ribbit's Developer Platform, Chuck Freedman, will explore an evolution in web communication. With the growing demand of RIA and voice-over-the-web solutions, developers finally have a full suite of communication APIs to add to Flash. Coding with Ribbit, Freedman will demonstrate how to send SMS messages from your application. The session will explore features that let users check voicemail, listen to and even read their messages. We will see how to easily make and receive calls from Flash so customers can call you (or your client) without leaving the web page or picking up the phone. Freedman will reveal a killer app that can do it all - something attendees will quickly be able to build too, after experiencing this session.

AJAX World RIA Conference - RIAs: 'Flying Pixels' and Enterprise Applications?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Rich Internet Applications have become ubiquitous to the point that many of us rely on them for daily activities. But there's a big difference between consumer websites and enterprise-class applications. While new browser capabilities provide a richer look and feel for consumer sites, they also facilitate mission-critical enterprise applications that deliver improved functionality, richness and end-user productivity. This session will explore various approaches to building RIAs and the pros and cons of each. As part of his review, Jeremy Chone will outline seven practical tips for bringing RIA to the enterprise.

AJAX World RIA Conference - Using the Cloud to Build Cost-Effective, Highly-Scalable Web Apps

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Cloud Computing isn’t just another buzzword: this session will look at what the industry is up to, Amazon is up to, and especially how people are innovating in the cloud. Buzzwords aside, virtualized (cloud) computing is a disruptive game changer at both technical and business levels, as you'll learn. Amazon Senior Evangelist Jeff Barr will review Amazon's multi-year effort to provide software developers and entrepreneurs with the technical and business innovations which allow them to build cost-effective, highly-scalable web applications.

Open Source RIA Framework qooxdoo 0.8 Released

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:36:00 EDT

qooxdoo is a comprehensive and innovative AJAX application framework. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS or DOM knowledge is needed. It includes a platform-independent development tool chain, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit and an advanced client-server communication layer. It is open source under an LGPL/EPL dual license.

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

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:30:00 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, Business Case for RIAs, Cloud Computing, Comet, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), iPhone Development, JavaScript, Mashups, Mobile RIAs, Open APIs & Toolkits, SaaS, Security, Silverlight, Social Software, and User Interface & User eXperience Issues.

SYS-CON Webcast - AJAX and Social Computing for the Enterprise

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:15:00 EDT

Social computing is no longer a casual activity: corporations are increasingly leveraging wikis and blogs to enhance collaboration inside and outside the firewall. Next-generation social computing demands spontaneous and responsive collaboration. Are AJAX technologies up to the task? This webcast explores the challenges, practices, and futures for AJAX collaboration techniques. Beginning with a review of existing open source AJAX technologies, covering deployment infrastructure, application development, and supporting libraries, we will continue with several examples of what is possible today. This webcast will give you an understanding of where social computing can go and what AJAX technologies will take it there.

SYS-CON Webcast - DreamFace: The Ultimate Framework for Creating Personalized Web 2.0 Mashups

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:30:00 EDT

You’ve heard about Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups, you’ve seen the press, now you can see the real thing; announcing “Outsider”, version 3 of our highly acclaimed DreamFace Open Source AJAX Framework for building Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups. Find out how to build personalized and shareable Web 2.0 Mashups by combining internal company data with public data from the web.

SYS-CON Webcast - Think Fast: Accelerate AJAX Development with Appcelerator

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:00 EDT

Jeff Haynie will introduce you to Appcelerator’s open-source RIA platform. You will learn how Appcelerator has been able to help developers create AJAX-based RIAs in less than 1/3 of the time, with up to 90 percent less code, and with no Javascript or third-party toolkits.

SYS-CON Webcast - jMaki as an AJAX Mashup Framework

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:15:00 EDT

jMaki has evolved from giving developers the ability to sprinkle AJAX into their web apps easily to be a full AJAX framework. jMaki has evolved once again with the jMaki Webtop which lets you quickly create mashups using jMaki widgets that can interact with each other. The jMaki Webtop is based on a container widget that lets you drag and drop your favorite widgets and easily map them to your services or have them work together without having to write web pages. The jMaki Webtop also has a management service for configuring deploy widgets and mapping those widgets to your services. Also included is the ability to manage users and share a jMaki Webtop with everyone.

SYS-CON Webcast - Now Playing: Desktop Apps in the Browser!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:15:00 EDT

AJAX isn’t just for rich UIs and mashups anymore. Web 2.0 has infiltrated the enterprise workforce, and IT departments all around the world just like yours are feeling the pressure to make every back-office, call center, trading blotter, inventory management and systems performance application look and feel like iGoogle or MyESPN.com. Simply slapping on a few AJAX widgets will make these applications look cooler, but what about business logic, data integration and replicating the business processes?

SYS-CON Webcast - Enterprise Comet: Real-Time, Real-Time, or Real-Time Web 2.0?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:38:00 EDT

As much as we like the term real-time, it has over time become too saturated to lend itself any use to Web 2.0 technologies that really mean it. Question is; what do we actual mean with "real-time"? In what context is it used? And what impact will it have on your business? This webcast will clarify the definition of real-time in the context of Web 2.0 and what impact new emerging real-time Web 2.0 technologies will have on your enterprise over the next coming years.

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

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:00 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.

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

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:45:00 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.

AJAX World RIA Conference Early Bird Savings to Expire This Friday

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:45:00 EDT

Rich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.

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

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:00:00 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.

AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo - The UX Meme Is Reaching the Enterprise at Last

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:30:00 EDT

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.'

AJAX RIA Load Testing: Isomorphic and SOASTA Partner

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:30:00 EDT

Isomorphic Software and SOASTA announced a partnership that will give AJAX developers the ability to conduct in-cloud performance and scalability testing of applications built on the SmartClient AJAX RIA Platform for just a few hundred dollars.

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.

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.