Executive Report

RIAs: UIs, Platforms, and Architecture

Posted June 30, 2008 | Technology |

Abstract

Responsive, highly functional, and customizable, rich Internet applications (RIAs) are more than a cool front end for a traditional Web application. A RIA turns the browser into a fully programmable platform, relocating user interface (UI) code, cleaning up the application architecture, and simplifying the development job.

About The Author
John Tibbetts
John Tibbetts' consulting career spans 35 years. He is a former Senior Consultant with Cutter's Business & Enterprise Architecture practice. For the past 21 years, through his consulting company Kinexis, he has focused on helping enterprises and their software vendors articulate and implement coherent, principled software architectures. He works with technical architecture teams as they come to strategic decisions and, at the other end of… Read More
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