Scott Cranton is Director of Product Strategy at Nexaweb Technologies Inc., a software vendor in the Rich Internet Application market. In his more than 15 years in the software industry, he has been a software developer, architect, consultant and product manager.
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)
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Scott Cranton is Director of Product Strategy at Nexaweb Technologies Inc., a software vendor in the Rich Internet Application market. In his more than 15 years in the software industry, he has been a software developer, architect, consultant and product manager.
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