Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.
Cynergy Systems announced
the opening of its Boston
office. Located at 34
Farnsworth Street in the
popular Seaport area,
Cynergy's newest office
is in the heart of
Boston's growing digital
media community.
Curl announced the
release of its Curl Data
Kit (CDK), the second
product to be delivered
from Curl's Open Source
initiative. As the newest
addition to Version 6.0
of the Curl Rich Internet
Application (RIA)
Platform, the CDK library
facilitates building
data-cent...
QlikTech announces the
general availability
release of Version 8.5 of
QlikView, its
award-winning business
analysis solution. The
highlight of QlikView 8.5
is a groundbreaking ?Set
Analysis? feature that
allows comparisons among
virtually any sets of
associated da...
AJAX is about a rich user
interface that is not
just reactive but also
pro-active; it's about
content, perhaps
socialized
(user-generated) content;
and it's about pain-free
deployment, with loosely
coupled services.
WaveMaker, a provider of
open source tools for
rapid Web application
development, today
announced that Mavirroco
Consulting has
successfully built and
deployed an open source
Web directory and content
management system for the
Medical College of
Tarijas using Wave...
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 Re...
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...
'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...
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 exten...
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-base...
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-...
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'...
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...
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 Conf...
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...
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 error...
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 indu...
'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
JavaSc...
'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...
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 clien...
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. Th...
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, report...
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 rel...
'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
...
'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
...
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 th...
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
...
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 outs...
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
machine...
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 ...
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 ...
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
...
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 ...
'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 b...
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)...
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.
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
...
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
applicatio...
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 ...
'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...
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...
'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
JavaSc...
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 th...
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 ...
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 ...
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
...
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 ...
'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 b...
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)...
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. 
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
...
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
applicatio...
