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Rich Clients Revisited | October 30, 2005

Long time no blog (again). Well, there's been a bunch of stuff happening at work lately and one of the 'avenues' I have recently been down has led me to check out Macromedia Flex. Remember the hype around RIAs? I've only really just scratched the surface, however, this is a powerful presentation server which pulls data from your defined sources, does its magic and streams nice rich Flash UIs back to the client. One very helpful site I came across while playing with this was Christophe Coenraets'. Now mind you, at 12K I don't know how viable this is really going to be for the kind of projects I work on at the moment, but then there's always OpenLaszlo. This may be a good alternative - I've yet to try it though. Another site which looks like it may have some interesting thoughts on this is richclient.de.
Anyway, be it AJAX or Flash-based (and no, Java doesn't qualify), it looks as though Rich Internet Applications may actually start becoming a reality.

Posted at 08:18 PM CET