How Should You Decide
Which RIA Platform To
Choose?
'Which RIA platform to
choose? Whichever one can
deliver the best
functionality combined
with industrial-strength
reliability, performance,
and scalability will win
the race.' That, in the
view of Bert Halstead, is
the long and the short of
it. And many of his
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From Brisbane to Berlin
and from Tokyo to
Toronto, delegates will
be converging next month
at AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2008 East in New
York City from 26
different countries,
eager to play catch-up
with all that's been
happening in the world of
Rich Internet
...
Kaazing, headquartered in
Silicon Valley,
California, . We provide
real-time software
solutions to customers
who really care about
their end-user experience
when it comes to
usability, scalability,
and performance. In
addition to providing
commercial enterprise
...
OASIS (Organization for
the Advancement of
Structured Information
Standards) is a
not-for-profit,
international consortium
that drives the
development, convergence,
and adoption of
e-business standards. The
consortium produces more
Web services standards
than an...
One Great City, Two Great
Keynotes, Three Intense
Days, Eighteen Core
Topics, Eighty-Five
Content-Rich Sessions,
Ninety-Eight Expert
Speakers - what better
way to summarize the 5th
International AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo than
through this numerical
whirlwind tour? Enjoy!
Jean-Francois Arcand,
Technical Lead of the
Java NIO-based http
engine called Grizzly,
will be speaking next
week at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
East at The Roosevelt
Hotel in New York City,
the 5th International
AJAXWorld. 
There is now a spectrum
of Rich Internet
Application (RIA)
technologies - including
Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR,
Microsoft Silverlight and
Curl - that go beyond the
traditional functionality
that AJAX provides. These
platforms provide
distinct benefits for
moving comple...
Complex event processing
and RIA used together
turbo charge application
development. In this
presentation we base our
story around real life
success in building a
real-time trading
application. A thrilling
demo is included.
Fueled by the explosive
growth in digital media
and user generated
content, the demand for
storage has increased
exponentially, placing
significant stress on
current 'in house'
storage architectures and
costly overcapacity
build-outs. Factoring in
time-to-market p...
In this presentation,
we'll introduce Laszlo
Webtop 1.2, a framework
built on OpenLaszlo for
delivering multiple
RIA/AJAX-based
communications and
collaboration
applications. Coupled
with Webtop's
breakthrough cinematic
user interface is a
corresponding
server...
AJAX Data Services is a
JavaScript library that
lets AJAX developers
access the messaging and
data management
capabilities of Flex Data
Services directly from
JavaScript. It lets you
use Flex clients and AJAX
clients that share data
in the same messaging
applicati...
Last year, the overall
demand for RIAs outpaced
the qualified supply
chain. Industry analysts
expect the explosive
growth to continue in
2008. Anthony Franco,
President, EffectiveUI,
will discuss how this
unprecedented increase in
RIA adoption - especially
by the ...
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...
New interaction paradigms
and complex user
interface controls of
AJAX have raised concerns
about access and
usability for users of
all backgrounds and
abilities. Client-side
JavaScript code may
assume certain language
or cultural conventions,
alienating vast
aud...
This session will address
issues to consider when
selecting an AJAX toolkit
and the most effective
IDE for the
implementation. It will
identify the 30-40 UI
components most commonly
used in business and
mission critical software
applications that can be
used as a ...
Microsoft introduced
Silverlight as
cross-platform,
cross-browser next
generation RIA solution.
No matter you have LAMP,
ASP.NET or JAVA Web
application, you can take
advantage of Silverlight
to impress your user with
the 'WOW' effects. This
session will use real ...
ASP.NET AJAX is a natural
candidate for RIA
development under the
.NET framework. However,
there are other
complementary or even
alternative technologies
that are worth your
consideration. This
session will start with a
brief market overview and
outline the pros a...
jMaki is an AJAX
framework that provide a
wrapper over rich widgets
from multiple toolkits
such as Yahoo!, Dojo and
many others.
jMaki-wrapped widgets can
be easily used in a JSP,
Rails, PHP and Phobos
app. This session will
explain what jMaki is and
show using li...
PHP is the server-side
technology behind the
majority of Web 2.0 sites
like Facebook, Flickr,
Technorati, Ning, and Web
2.0 applications like
IBM's QedWiki, Wordpress
and SugarCRM, the new
generation of Rich
Internet Applications
(RIAs). Zend's CTO Andi
Gutmans wi...
In this session, Laurence
Moroney, Microsoft, will
introduce Silverlight 2.0
and how it can be used to
easily and productively
build next generation
Rich Interactive
Applications using C#,
XAML, JavaScript, AJAX
and more. He will
demonstrate how to go
from Zero-to...
Open source, open
platforms, open
development
environments... 'Open'
can mean a lot of things,
and the differences
between one 'open' and
another can be
significant. David
'Lefty' Schelsinger will
examine the various
aspects and uses of the
term 'open' as it rel...
Many business developers
want to start using AJAX
by enhancing the forms in
their existing
applications. This
presentation will
demonstrate how to
quickly and easily add
AJAX capabilities to
standard HTML forms using
the Dojo toolkit. The
talk is geared to
devel...
