A sip of clean WebUI

On June 26, a Fresh Air seminar was held at the Media Center of Samara State Aerospace University on the emerging technologies of Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

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The conference was organized by a team of young people who recently graduated from the university, and began to conduct such seminars with the support of the student IT-club. So far, the initiative group has two such events, but everything indicates that they will be held regularly.

Rich Internet Applications translate as rich Internet applications, which ideally will replace expensive desktop software for ordinary users, and, moreover, will deprive of the problem of cross-platform. An application running in a virtual machine is almost indifferent to the operating system and hardware platform.
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At the edge of technology

The conference reviewed the three most promising and dynamic developments in the field of RIA:
• Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR,
• Microsoft Silverlight,
• Sun JavaFX.

Previously, Flex was launched at the start, which has become an extension of Flash and is being developed by Macromedia. After Adobe acquired this company, the efforts of the two giants in the RIA were combined and Adobe Flex can rightly be called leading now. But on the heels of Adobe, Microsoft is rapidly advancing with its young Silverlight. The technology is not yet completely run-in; but, knowing the aggressiveness of Microsoft in an effort to occupy a dominant part in any niche market in which it comes, it is clear that the competitor to Adobe Flex is more than serious.

In connection with the almost obvious increase in the popularity of RIA, Sun Microsystems also decided to grab a tidbit, especially since Sun was once the parent of the first RIA applications (applets). Release JavaFX company outlined for the autumn of this year.

Why did Microsoft and Sun decide that their start-ups would compete with Flex? One of the main reasons is that now there are a lot of .Net and Java developers in the world who will be more comfortable working with a familiar programming language and a familiar development environment. On the other hand, the ActionScript language used by Adobe is very similar to both Java and C #, and the development environment besides the standard one can be either Eclipse or IDEA.

The conference as a whole was devoted to demonstrating the capabilities of the described technologies, since Now most of the developers have a superficial understanding of RIA technologies, and generally use units.

During the seminar, the main advantages and disadvantages of each of the three technologies were considered, although the most attention was paid to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR is essentially the same “flash drive”, but launched on the desktop, naturally with a corresponding expansion of capabilities. Such an application runs in a virtual machine, so developing it immediately implies cross-platform. Already, Adobe supports Windows and MacOS; Adobe AIR for Linux is still under development.

Fresh organization

It should be noted the high level of training of the seminar speakers. The competent scenario of the whole event and even presentations of the speakers can give odds to the preparedness of Microsoft DevDays events in our city. Even in the event of technical problems or if the participants were late, the organizers very smoothly got out of the situation. Certainly, of course, some inexperience of the participants in public speeches, on the other hand, it is very encouraging to see that the guys practice basic techniques of working with the audience.

A well-organized coffee break completes the positive picture of the entire conference. Where did you see the developers leaving the table before the break was over, and there were still snacks on it? Although, of course, there were other factors here - the desire to communicate with the speakers and the opportunity to try the technologies in question live.

In general, you should say thanks
Speakers: Ilya Krasinsky, Oleg Makarov, Pavel Veselovsky;
and organizational support: Anton Lobachev, Irina Dorovskikh, Artem Kharitonov, Yaroslav Patrikeev, Dmitry Klenov.

A sip of clean WebUI

At the edge of technology

Fresh organization

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