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06 Jun 07
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27 Mar 07
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With RIA the functionality and security of CMSs reach a totally new level, which earlier was available only with desktop applications. Yet we should not forget that RIA-based interfaces are capable of interacting not only with their own server software, but with third-party applications as well. This fact lets us hope that present-day CMSs will gradually evolve towards ECM (Enterprise Content Management), thus bridging the gap between corporate sites and corporate network information resources.
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It is obvious that apart from everything else IRA-based sites can report the status of processes and their results.
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Today RIA can be developed with the help of AJAX, Adobe Flex, Windows Presentation Foundation, Flash, Java-applets, Java and some declarative languages - such as XUL and MXML. Of all these tools only AJAX and Flash gained wide popularity - mainly because they are easily available. And whereas development of Flash-based applications is quite a resource-consuming and expensive process, developing RIA with AJAX takes hardly more time then it would with an older-type, classical web-site. In most current projects Flash is only used when it is needed.
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With RIA, there's no need to reload pages. As you click to receive additional data or send data to server, the latter receives corresponding instructions and uploads the results onto the page. The application receives server's response and changes accordingly.
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The term Rich Internet Applications (RIA) was first mentioned in Macromedia's promotional materials in March 2002.
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