It is widely known in the IT industry that by taking a service oriented
architecture (SOA) approach to engineer back-office systems enterprises
experience significant flexibility and cost savings, however, SOAs do not
address problems surrounding the development and deployment of new
applications to front-office end users. To overcome this hurdle, rich
Internet application (RIA) frameworks are designed to enable IT organizations
to quickly and easily create highly maintainable composite applications that
can take full advantage of their new service-oriented infrastructure.
This article will discuss what it means to combine SOA and RIA, and provide
an overview of the current RIA technology landscape. Additionally, future
articles in this series will provide more in-depth t... (more)
Despite its success in the mid-tier, Linux has not been widely adopted on
enterprise desktops - primarily because there is currently very little in the
way of standards-based support for developing platform-neutral,
enterprise-class GUI applications for Linux. Enterprises will not undertake
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