rich Internet applications (RIA)

Eclipse organization’s browser-based Orion tool gets on-line hub

UPDATED - A JavaScript editor known as Orion uses the browser as the basis for building tools for web developers. While it is an Eclipse Foundation effort, it is said to represent a fully new code base. Now it is available via an online hub. IBM engineers have forged the first bits of Orion.

The World Wide Web celebrates its 20th anniversary

Some differ on when it was born, but by some measures the World Wide Web turned 20 last weekend. Tim Berners-Lee introduced his proposal for a "WorldWideWeb" to CERN on November 12, 1990....

Dojo for Ajax gets enterprise push from Nexaweb

Can a free open source Ajax toolkit handle enterprise applications?

That's the question Nexaweb Technologies Inc. is hoping to answer in the affirmative with today's announcement that it is contributing new software to the Dojo Foundation to provide...

SOA experts, we’ve got ‘em

Pro wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper immortalized the words "Just when they think they've got the answers, I change the questions." Now we at SearchSOA.com are asking...

JavaOne: Sun seeks digital life

If serverside developers and enterprise architects were left feeling forgotten by last year's JavaOne conference, then they'll be feeling positively orphaned by this year's major keynote address. Sun Microsystems executive vice president for software Rich Green hammered away on how Java provides...

Does WOA bring anything new to SOA?

A lot of analysts I respect have been pushing the concept of Web-oriented architecture, or WOA, of late. For those unfamiliar with the term, Dion Hinchcliffe has covered it extensively and Dana Gardner has been

Oracle avoids JavaScript in RIA tools

Oracle Corp. continues to pursue its agnostic approach to Web 2.0 development as its tools designed to help developers create Ajax without having to mess with JavaScript progress through beta, says Ted Farrell, chief architect and vice president for tools and middleware at Oracle.

In an...

The SOA-RIA intersection

Recently we polled SearchSOA.com site members on their RIA and composite application plans. What we discovered is there's a massive overlap between the SOA and RIA audiences.

In all we received 395 responses and 44% said rich Internet applications were part of their enterprise IT/business...

Web 2.0 leading SOA in buzzword compliance?

Marketers in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) world seem to be  falling all over each other to make their new products Web 2.0 buzzword compliant. Although Web 2.0 is a dubious term technically since there is no real Web 2.0. It is a clever catchall phrase for the more glitzy browser...

Wall St. looks to meld enterprise mashups with SOA

Web 2.0 and enterprise mashups were the hot topics at this year's Web Services/SOA on Wall St. conference. Michael Ogrinz, principal architect for global markets at Bank of America, revealed his company was heavily...