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2008: Decision Year for RIAs - October 20-22, 2008 San Jose
RIA News Desk
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.
Read about Forrester's
findings on RIA security
included in a Forrester
Research paper valued at
$775 titled 'Securing
Rich Internet
Applications' by Jeffrey
Hammond, plus find out
about Curl's Security
Architecture in a new
Curl white paper titled
'Developing Sec...
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 Eve...
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,
Google Web Toolkit (GWT),
iPhone Development,
Ja...
Scott Guthrie isn't much
bothered whether they're
called 'Rich Internet
Applications' or 'Rich
Interactive Applications'
- Microsoft, where
Guthrie is Corporate Vice
President of the .NET
Developer Platform and
therefore head of the
Redmond team behind
Silverlight...
WaveMaker announced a
strategic partnership
with on-demand financial
Web services provider
Xignite. Together,
Xignite and WaveMaker
will simplify the process
by which financial
services organizations
integrate key financial
information into the
processes and
app...
NetSuite announced new
capabilities for its
flagship CRM product,
NetSuite CRM+, featuring
AJAX-powered workflows
that enhance ease-of-use
of marketing automation
and knowledge management
functionality used in
customer support and
customer service. These
new workf...
Ajax specialists, Nitobi
Inc., releases Complete
UI 2008 Q3 with
enhancements to two of
the suite's Ajax
components, support for
JavaServer Faces (JSF),
and support for Firefox
3. Nitobi's Complete UI
integrated platform for
building web user
interfaces includes 1...
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...
The pressure is on to
keep pace with Web 2.0
entrants into the
marketplace. Rewriting is
expensive; adding AJAX
widgets results in a
complex, unmaintainable
application. Both require
you to hire scarce
JavaScript developers.
Google Web Toolkit -- the
SDK that allo...
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
...
SaaS based applications
continue to grow at a
staggering rate.
According to software
market analysts, SaaS
represented approximately
5% of business software
revenue in 2005 and, by
2011, 25% of new business
software will be
delivered as SaaS and
will grow at a 21%...
As Web-based applications
are pushing the 'Rich
User Experience'
envelope, AJAX is quickly
becoming a standard
front-end for any PHP
application. But
unfortunately as PHP
applications that utilize
AJAX are being forced to
morph from two-tier to
three-tier architec...
Come see a no-slides,
code-only presentation
that starts with a blank
directory and builds a
data-driven, AJAX
enabled, ASP.NET web
application from scratch
that implements common
AJAX patterns with the
rich set of AJAX Control
Toolkit, accesses data
with LINQ, an...
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 ot
RichFaces became a
re...
Today, there is a wealth
of technologies to take
advantage of to add AJAX
behaviors to your
Spring-based Java Web
applications. This
session will assume you
know the basics of AJAX
and Spring, and will dive
straight into evaluating
the leading AJAX
technologies, a...
RIAs provide the promise
of an excellent User
eXperience, but the
ultimate success of the
UX is driven more by the
skill of the developer
than the tool selection
itself. This session will
discuss the foundation
and importance of the
application of cognitive
scienc...
Microsoft introduced
Silverlight as
cross-platform,
cross-browser next
generation RIA solution.
This session will use
real world
implementations to show
you how to build a
Silverlight application
from start to finish, as
well overall strategy why
we should or sh...
JavaScript is one of the
most interesting and
misunderstood programming
languages in common use
today. Most developers
will go their entire
careers without realizing
its full potential. It's
not often that you get a
language that supports
the feature set that
Java...
WaveMaker 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 WaveMaker
Visual AJAX Studio. The
new internal Web
application, called
'ColMed,' a...
As the mobile Web
matures, we see more and
more people running
around airports with
their mobile devices in
hand, searching for hotel
rooms, reading the news,
or just playing video
games. People are more
connected with their
mobile phone today than
any other elect...
The Networked Application
is an emerging design
pattern in rich Internet
application development.
The crux of the pattern
is to push all user
interface code to the
client. The client
'downloads' the
application, and the
application then
communicates to one or
mo...
Apple has introduced a
number of extensions to
the JavaScript
programming language to
assist iPhone Web
developers. Including new
fast lookup functions,
native SVG graphics
processing, CSS effects,
database storage and full
screen mode. These new
functions will tr...
Many new model mobile
devices allow the 'Web
Runtime' (i.e., the
browser engine) to invoke
device capabilities from
JavaScript, such as
access to current
location (e.g., via GPS),
phone dialer, camera,
address book, calendar,
email, and SMS, whereas
previously the...
This session will provide
an in-depth look into the
use of HTML 5 WebSocket
and the techniques and
technologies required to
build Comet applications
with it. Additionally,
the speakers will discuss
the trade-offs between
emerging de jure
standards (such as HTML
5'...
SL Corporation, a
provider of real-time
monitoring, analytics,
and visualization
software, today announced
the availability of
RTView version 5.0. This
latest release allows
users to mix and match a
variety of Web 2.0
technologies ? including
AJAX and Flash ? to
...
Build stunning animated
applications that do
amazing things that will
knock your users socks
off. Drawing on the
content of his book on
Core Animation, Dudney
will take you through the
concepts crucial to
building beautiful native
apps for the iPhone.
Often called the Semantic
or Pervasive Web, Web 3.0
brings a level of
artificial intelligence
to transform the Internet
from a searchable catalog
to a personal guide that
can reason in a
human-like fashion and
provide users with more
services and options for
socia...
The Co-Web, the
collaborative, media
converged Web, is upon
us. The Co-Web is
interpersonal; it is
about getting work done
together. It is much more
than surfing a
YouTube/Google Map mashup
while Twittering with
co-workers. Showtime uses
those same technologies
...
JavaScript is a language
with more than its share
of bad parts. It went
from non-existence to
global adoption in an
alarmingly short period
of time. It never had an
interval in the lab when
it could be tried out and
polished. JavaScript has
some extraordinarily good...
This Session will
demonstrate why social
networking is more than
just marketing buzz; it
is a relational model
that has been used for
years to define the way
human beings interact,
and it is the next step
in the natural evolution
of the Web. Learn how
organization...
JavaScript 2 is becoming
increasingly important.
Learn how to take
advantage of JavaScript 2
while still running in
today's browsers.
Leverage your current
JavaScript and HTML
skills to build
applications that run in
Flash 7-9, DHTML and more
with no code changes!...
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 g...
In this session Thomas
will share his experience
in migrating from AJAX to
Flex, the
advantages/disadvantages
that Flex has as the
primary client for a
consumer web-based SaaS
product, and his vision
of how Flex + AIR via any
desktop + Mobile (in one
or more techn...
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 examp...
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 ...
In this session that no
developer who uses
JavaScript or
ActionScript will want to
miss, delegates will
learn how to: Overcome
common hurdles and
pitfalls of client-side
only JavaScript
development. Speed up
development time by
cutting out extra
server-side co...
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 sess...
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...
As any successful
marketer knows,
understanding customer
needs and designing an
experience tailored to
those needs contributes
to the overall success of
the product. Whether the
portal is private, such
as an intranet-based
reporting tool, or
public, such as an
e...
For the last couple of
years, there has been a
lot of giddiness around
the creation or Rich
Internet Applications or
RIAs. Their fluidity,
animation and ability to
present and manipulate
large amounts of data
makes them readily
appealing to businesses
that want to...
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
In ASP.NET 2.0, we
introduced a very
powerful set of
application services in
ASP.NET (Membership,
Roles and profile). In
3.5 we created a client
library for accessing
them from Ajax and .NET
Clients and exposed them
via WCF web services. For
more information on the
base level ASP.NET
The pressure is on to
keep pace with Web 2.0
entrants into the
marketplace. Rewriting is
expensive; adding AJAX
widgets results in a
complex, unmaintainable
application. Both require
you to hire scarce
JavaScript developers.
Google Web Toolkit -- the
SDK that allows you to
write AJAX i
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
SaaS based applications
continue to grow at a
staggering rate.
According to software
market analysts, SaaS
represented approximately
5% of business software
revenue in 2005 and, by
2011, 25% of new business
software will be
delivered as SaaS and
will grow at a 21% %
annual growth rate
As Web-based applications
are pushing the 'Rich
User Experience'
envelope, AJAX is quickly
becoming a standard
front-end for any PHP
application. But
unfortunately as PHP
applications that utilize
AJAX are being forced to
morph from two-tier to
three-tier architectures,
pushing code to
Come see a no-slides,
code-only presentation
that starts with a blank
directory and builds a
data-driven, AJAX
enabled, ASP.NET web
application from scratch
that implements common
AJAX patterns with the
rich set of AJAX Control
Toolkit, accesses data
with LINQ, and implements
standards
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 ot
RichFaces became a
reality that can be
portab
Today, there is a wealth
of technologies to take
advantage of to add AJAX
behaviors to your
Spring-based Java Web
applications. This
session will assume you
know the basics of AJAX
and Spring, and will dive
straight into evaluating
the leading AJAX
technologies, and how to
integrate th
RIAs provide the promise
of an excellent User
eXperience, but the
ultimate success of the
UX is driven more by the
skill of the developer
than the tool selection
itself. This session will
discuss the foundation
and importance of the
application of cognitive
science techniques to the
pr
Read about Forrester's
findings on RIA security
included in a Forrester
Research paper valued at
$775 titled 'Securing
Rich Internet
Applications' by Jeffrey
Hammond, plus find out
about Curl's Security
Architecture in a new
Curl white paper titled
'Developing Secure Rich
Interne
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
RIAs 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
currently still open, spe
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,
Google Web Toolkit (GWT),
iPhone Development,
JavaScript, Mashup
IBM claims to have
created new species of
custom-built,
industry-standard,
Linux-based rack server
for Web 2.0 and Cloud
Computing companies with
massive data centers and
tens of thousands of
servers, like online
gaming, social networks,
search and Internet
firms. A relatively li
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AJAXWorld Magazine is the pre-eminent independent vendor-neutral resource for the fastest growing new segment of the software business: entirely Web-based applications and experiences.
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 Eve...
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,
Google Web Toolkit (GWT),
iPhone Development,
Ja...
Scott Guthrie isn't much
bothered whether they're
called 'Rich Internet
Applications' or 'Rich
Interactive Applications'
- Microsoft, where
Guthrie is Corporate Vice
President of the .NET
Developer Platform and
therefore head of the
Redmond team behind
Silverlight...
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...
The pressure is on to
keep pace with Web 2.0
entrants into the
marketplace. Rewriting is
expensive; adding AJAX
widgets results in a
complex, unmaintainable
application. Both require
you to hire scarce
JavaScript developers.
Google Web Toolkit -- the
SDK that allo...
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
...
SaaS based applications
continue to grow at a
staggering rate.
According to software
market analysts, SaaS
represented approximately
5% of business software
revenue in 2005 and, by
2011, 25% of new business
software will be
delivered as SaaS and
will grow at a 21%...
As Web-based applications
are pushing the 'Rich
User Experience'
envelope, AJAX is quickly
becoming a standard
front-end for any PHP
application. But
unfortunately as PHP
applications that utilize
AJAX are being forced to
morph from two-tier to
three-tier architec...
Come see a no-slides,
code-only presentation
that starts with a blank
directory and builds a
data-driven, AJAX
enabled, ASP.NET web
application from scratch
that implements common
AJAX patterns with the
rich set of AJAX Control
Toolkit, accesses data
with LINQ, an...
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 ot
RichFaces became a
re...
Today, there is a wealth
of technologies to take
advantage of to add AJAX
behaviors to your
Spring-based Java Web
applications. This
session will assume you
know the basics of AJAX
and Spring, and will dive
straight into evaluating
the leading AJAX
technologies, a...
Microsoft introduced
Silverlight as
cross-platform,
cross-browser next
generation RIA solution.
This session will use
real world
implementations to show
you how to build a
Silverlight application
from start to finish, as
well overall strategy why
we should or sh...
JavaScript is one of the
most interesting and
misunderstood programming
languages in common use
today. Most developers
will go their entire
careers without realizing
its full potential. It's
not often that you get a
language that supports
the feature set that
Java...
As the mobile Web
matures, we see more and
more people running
around airports with
their mobile devices in
hand, searching for hotel
rooms, reading the news,
or just playing video
games. People are more
connected with their
mobile phone today than
any other elect...
The Networked Application
is an emerging design
pattern in rich Internet
application development.
The crux of the pattern
is to push all user
interface code to the
client. The client
'downloads' the
application, and the
application then
communicates to one or
mo...
Apple has introduced a
number of extensions to
the JavaScript
programming language to
assist iPhone Web
developers. Including new
fast lookup functions,
native SVG graphics
processing, CSS effects,
database storage and full
screen mode. These new
functions will tr...
Many new model mobile
devices allow the 'Web
Runtime' (i.e., the
browser engine) to invoke
device capabilities from
JavaScript, such as
access to current
location (e.g., via GPS),
phone dialer, camera,
address book, calendar,
email, and SMS, whereas
previously the...
This session will provide
an in-depth look into the
use of HTML 5 WebSocket
and the techniques and
technologies required to
build Comet applications
with it. Additionally,
the speakers will discuss
the trade-offs between
emerging de jure
standards (such as HTML
5'...
Build stunning animated
applications that do
amazing things that will
knock your users socks
off. Drawing on the
content of his book on
Core Animation, Dudney
will take you through the
concepts crucial to
building beautiful native
apps for the iPhone.
Often called the Semantic
or Pervasive Web, Web 3.0
brings a level of
artificial intelligence
to transform the Internet
from a searchable catalog
to a personal guide that
can reason in a
human-like fashion and
provide users with more
services and options for
socia...
The Co-Web, the
collaborative, media
converged Web, is upon
us. The Co-Web is
interpersonal; it is
about getting work done
together. It is much more
than surfing a
YouTube/Google Map mashup
while Twittering with
co-workers. Showtime uses
those same technologies
...
JavaScript is a language
with more than its share
of bad parts. It went
from non-existence to
global adoption in an
alarmingly short period
of time. It never had an
interval in the lab when
it could be tried out and
polished. JavaScript has
some extraordinarily good...
This Session will
demonstrate why social
networking is more than
just marketing buzz; it
is a relational model
that has been used for
years to define the way
human beings interact,
and it is the next step
in the natural evolution
of the Web. Learn how
organization...
JavaScript 2 is becoming
increasingly important.
Learn how to take
advantage of JavaScript 2
while still running in
today's browsers.
Leverage your current
JavaScript and HTML
skills to build
applications that run in
Flash 7-9, DHTML and more
with no code changes!...
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 g...
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 examp...
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 ...
In this session that no
developer who uses
JavaScript or
ActionScript will want to
miss, delegates will
learn how to: Overcome
common hurdles and
pitfalls of client-side
only JavaScript
development. Speed up
development time by
cutting out extra
server-side co...
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 sess...
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...
As any successful
marketer knows,
understanding customer
needs and designing an
experience tailored to
those needs contributes
to the overall success of
the product. Whether the
portal is private, such
as an intranet-based
reporting tool, or
public, such as an
e...
For the last couple of
years, there has been a
lot of giddiness around
the creation or Rich
Internet Applications or
RIAs. Their fluidity,
animation and ability to
present and manipulate
large amounts of data
makes them readily
appealing to businesses
that want to...
In ASP.NET 2.0, we
introduced a very
powerful set of
application services in
ASP.NET (Membership,
Roles and profile). In
3.5 we created a client
library for accessing
them from Ajax and .NET
Clients and exposed them
via WCF web services. For
more information on the
base level ASP.NET 
RIAs 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
currently still open, spe
IBM claims to have
created new species of
custom-built,
industry-standard,
Linux-based rack server
for Web 2.0 and Cloud
Computing companies with
massive data centers and
tens of thousands of
servers, like online
gaming, social networks,
search and Internet
firms. A relatively li
