RIAs: UIs, Platforms, and Architecture

by John Tibbetts

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. Several vendors offer products for developing RIAs; some are terrific and some have a ways to go, as explored in this Executive Report by John Tibbetts.

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RIAs: UIs, Platforms, and Architecture1 July 2008

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