Articles
Articles published here are all original and copyrighted. They cover general technology and business issues, not necessarily just for RiaOne products and businesses. These articles reflect our understandings and beliefs upon which we rely our business model and strategy.
The following articles are based on facts and reasons, not hypes and marketing materials. They study the nature of web applications in the past and future, dissect the available technologies, elucidate the concrete concerns and strategy about Web 2.0 and RIA development, and show them in plain English to developers and decision makers.
| Web Application Strategy | Studies the nature of web applications, examines the web application technologies in the past and future, and points out the strategy for choosing the right technology for future web application development. | |
| Adobe® Flex™, the Right Way for RIAs | Examines the nature of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and the requirements for good RIA technologies, elucidates why Adobe® Flex™ is the right solution, looks at other RIA options, and addresses a number of myths about Flex™ 2. | |
| Dojo Explained | Explains what Dojo is about by explaining the two key ideas behind the Dojo Toolkit, which are (a) the Dojo Markups and page DOM rewrite, and (b) the augmentation of the JavaScript language with a Dojo package mechanism. It presents a number of serious concerns for using Dojo as a development platform for large-scale RIAs. | |
| The R1-RPC/J White Paper | This white paper explains the needs, challenges, design philosophy and solution of the R1-RPC/J Toolkit software. | |
| Ant Tasks for Adobe® Flex™ | The free R1-Tools Java library includes a number of Ant tasks for Adobe® Flex™ build operations. These tasks are believed to be better than others because they are more flexible (e.g., taking fileset) and reasonable. |