http://canoo.com/blog Web 2.0 Technology Blog on Java, AJAX and Flex Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:22:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The UltraLightClient team is pleased to announce that the a first bunch of community contributions has been ported to the new UltraLightClient '08 release.We are planning to port all relevant contributions to UltraLightClient '08 during the next few weeks. Some words on the UltraLightClient community. The community has two intentions: first ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/08/27/community-contributions-for-ultralightclient-08/ What contributes to the richness of a RIA (Rich Internet Application)? What contributes to the poorness of a PUWA (Poor Ugly Web Application)? How does a RIA compare to a PUWA? In this post, I'll discuss forms and what they look like in a RIA. Forms are the sort of things that you ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/08/25/ria-forms/ In this blog post series, I am revisiting some of the arguments for a Java-based RIA library such as UltraLightClient. Please leave a comment and share your views. Read Part 1 here. Why ULC? (Part 2) Within UltraLightClient the programming model and the execution model are server side based. ULC applications are ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/08/20/server-side-architecture/ I stumbled across this report discussing Web 2.0 within an enterprise context, which I would like to recommend: "Web 2.0 Gets Down to Business". The report discusses the results of an Information Week survey and presents some interesting charts and numbers, e.g. why companies introduced RIAs , or what type of apps ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/08/08/not-deploying-rias-is-not-an-option/ At Canoo, we strongly believe in the benefits of a Java-based approach to build richer business web applications. In various service projects, our customers have greatly benefited from this strategy. We would like to convince more companies to try out UltraLightClient for their web app projects. Within this context, I ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/08/05/why-ultralightclient/ Here is a link to an older Computerworld.ch article comparing Google Web Toolkit and Canoo's Java RIA library, UltraLightClient (in German only). Google Web Toolkit und Ultra Light Client Die Anbindung an das Internet und ein Browser gehören heute zur Standardausrüstung eines jeden Arbeitsplatzrechners oder Heim-PCs. Stefan Thomas Viele neue Anwendungen werden darum als ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/08/04/computerworldch-on-gwt-and-ultralightclient/ The August 2008 issue (Volume 31, No. 4) of Informatik Spektrum has published a background article by Hans-Dirk Walter on Rich Internet Applications. The article is in German and can be purchased online at the publisher's website: "Rich Internet Applications" – Eine perfekte Kombination benutzerfreundlicher Schnittstellen mit Webtechnologie Zusammenfassung "Rich ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/08/04/informatik-spektrum-publishes-article-on-rich-internet-apps/ it management has published an article by Canoo's CEO, Hans-Dirk Walter on building Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for business applications (in German only). The article provides a short introduction to RIA and some of the business benefits it offers such as automating global business process, consolidating applications or enabling Software as ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/07/10/feature-article-on-building-ria-for-business-users/ Soreco Group, one of Switzerland's leading software houses, uses Canoo's Rich Internet Application library to develop and distribute its flagship product Xpert.Ivy Xpert.Ivy is a business process management platform for mid-sized and large corporations. Inside-IT recently wrote: Xpert.ivy 4.0 enthält nun GUI-Komponenten-Bibliotheken, mit denen man Anwenderoberflächen "zusammenklicken" kann. Die gesamte Logik der Oberflächen ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/07/08/swiss-bpm-software/ Canoo recently published a new look for one of its UltraLightClient sample applications. Our aim for this sample project was to show that Java web applications need not rely on the standard "grey and clunky" look and feel, but can be customized to fit into a company's corporate design or ... http://canoo.com/blog/2008/07/02/new-look-for-a-canoo-sample-application/