Better term than “Rich Internet Application”?
In my daily read, I noticed that Ryan Stewart is discussing naming alternatives in his post “Is Rich Internet Application a bad term?”
In my humble opinion, I believe the current expression “Rich Internet Applications” has helped to clarify what the current web interface technologies are all about. At Canoo, we’re using the term generically to describe web applications that offer a richer, responsive user interface. Typical RIA technologies are AJAX, Adobe Flex, or Canoo’s Java library, UltraLightClient.
Before the terms AJAX and RIA emerged, it was always difficult to find a common understanding, and we tried out various different expressions. One of them even made it to the title page of the German developer magazine, JavaMagazin:
Other Canoo News:
The JGoodies Animation Extension and ULC Subset Chooser have been migrated to UltraLightClient 6.1. See the News section of the UltraLightClient Code Community.
Canoo is presenting two RIA talks at JAX 07 in Wiesbaden/Germany:
- Bruno Schäffer and Daniel Pfeifer on Java Rich Internet Applications (RIA) patterns,
- Sibylle Peter and Matthias Huber on Mixing AJAX, Swing, and Flash.
