I am considering creating my own website using Java and am trying to decide what framework to use. However, doing a quick search for Java frameworks returns more than 50 to choose from! My website is just going to be for my own enjoyment of building it in the beginning, but if it becomes popular it would be good for it to have some scala...
Has anyone worked on smartclient (the RIA platform provided by Isomorphic)? I want to know if any online material/books available on this RIA ...
Could Silverlight be used for the same things as jQuery, or are they intended for different things? For example, vb.net could be used for the same stuff as C# while C# is intended for different things than what JavaScript is. Is Silverlight and jQuery like vb.net and C#, or more like C# and JavaScript? ...
We are developing a considerably big application using Ruby on Rails framework (CRM system) and are considering to rewrite it to use ExtJS so that Rails would just do the data handling, while ExtJS would do all the browser heavylifting in a desktop-like manner. Anyone has some experience and hints about what would be the best approach?...
I want to create an simple UI-editor that can be used within the browser. It basically should have a UI-control palette and a canvas to layout and modify the controls. The resulting user-created UI model should be stored in some kind of backend and comply to an (abstract) UI description language (e.g. XForms). The UI-model should be down...
I'm starting to step into unfamiliar territory with regards to performance improvement and our RIA (Rich Internet Application) built with GWT. For those unfamiliar with GWT, essentially when deployed it's just pure JavaScript. We're interfacing with the server side using a REST-style XML web service via XMLHttpRequest. Our XML is un-mar...
From an interview with Peldi Guilizzoni, the creator of Balsamiq--an Adobe AIR application for creating mockups: And then you started working on the first version Balsamiq Mockups. Was there any hurdles in the development process? Ha! There's always hurdles, it's part of the fun of coding isn't it? Let me think. I t...
Adobe AIR has enabled us push the boundary for creating Rich Internet Applications(RIA) outside the browser fence. Some companies have differentiated such applications as Rich Desktop Application (RDA). We have usability guidelines for Web, Desktop and RIA applications separately. But since, Adobe AIR has enabled us to create desktop ap...
Are any versions (current or future) of Silverlight providing accessibility models to satisfy Section 508 and other Web Accessibility Standards? Flash has some support for making controls more accessible, but even that has only come to fruition in the most recent versions. http://www.webaim.org/techniques/flash/ ...
Where should the browser be improved upon to help improve application experiences? For instance some of my main gripes are A) Different browsers will need different configurations / plugins (I dont want to download different JRE's, RIA platforms such as flash, silverright, gears so forth) B) I want to always be able to drag data fro...
I don't hear much about GWT any more. When it first came out, it seemed to be all the rave in certain RIA circles. But lately my impression is that GWT has suffered a dip in popularity because solutions like Jquery/MooTools/Prototype offer a much easier way of solving the same problem. Is this accurate or does GWT solve a different ty...
Although it's pegged as a 3D graphics framework for the browser, could Google O3D be used as an RIA framework similar to GWT, Flex or Rails? ...
I am evaluating Rich Internet application solutions to use in next project. I have heard of following solutions - Adobe Flex extJS Jboss Richfaces IceFaces Oracle ADF JavaFX Silverlight GWT I want to know if there are more solutions available. I would appreciate if you can provide any valuable feedback on the above solutions. ...
I have swing application in which there is MS excel like functionality. User can enter data in the columns. Most of the columns are drop down lists, so use have to select from the list. Can this functionality be easily built in Adobe Flex or GWT? Second complexity is depending upon what value is selected in a column, another column sho...
So I've got a simple web application using Spring MVC + Hibernate and am using the OpenSessionInViewFilter. I've recently been thinking of replacing the UI with something like Flex or GWT. At first I thought it would be easy, in that I can just hit my service layer from the new front end. But as I consider this a bit more, I'm a littl...
Where can I get the JavaFx Authoring tool? ...
What is the most impressive "rich internet application" - which is usually Javascript/Flash/Silverlight - that you have experienced? I find Google maps is like Javascript/Flash voodoo and more specifically Google Streeview wins hands down. But I'm interested to know others. ...
Any key to become a user experience design and Rich Internet Application design? What should I learn to reach it? ...
I have always thought of JavaScript as a client-side scripting tool for augmenting the functionality of HTML, which in turn is usually generated by some other server-side technology - Java, .NET, Rails, Django, PHP, etc. Recently though I have heard people talk about JavaScript as an "application language". I understand that application...
I'd like to set this up as a post where all known JavaScript client development platforms could be listed by company/organization/ecosystem. * anything that is HTML/JavaScript-based. Microsoft Windows Gadgets* HTA - HTML Applications* Adobe Adobe AIR* Can be done with only HTML/JS but can also can use Flex/Flash Adobe Director Adobe PD...