Questions tagged [rich-internet-application]

A rich Internet application (RIA) is a Web application that has many of the characteristics of desktop application software, typically delivered by way of a site-specific browser, a browser plug-in, an independent sandbox, extensive use of JavaScript, or a virtual machine.

A rich Internet application (RIA) is a Web application that has many of the characteristics of desktop application software, typically delivered by way of a site-specific browser, a browser plug-in (such as or ), an independent sandbox, extensive use of JavaScript, or a virtual machine.

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Advantages of Ample SDK framework

Browsing the Internet, I found the new Ample SDK JavaScript framework. From their about section: Ample SDK is a standard-based cross-browser JavaScript GUI Framework for building Rich Internet Applications. It employs XML technologies (such as XUL,…
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Test Driven Development/Integration Testing in RIA development

When working with RIA development, there's at least three critical levels that should be tested: RIA application classes - in Flash/Flex these could be tested using AsUnit, FlexUnit or any other JUnit-like solution RIA application interface - in…
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Is there any live demo/sample applications for SproutCore or Cappuccino

Didn't find any from their website. I mostly just trying to see which one is worth going with(RIA of course). thanks
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How to avoid too many ajax calls and cache json data on the client side

I have a calendar application and it loads all of the event data using ajax and json results. the issue is that i have different view and right now i have to re call the server when i change views. Is there any recommendation for ways i can cache…
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Programatically Altering Font Face, Size, Weight & Color Of A Flex Label/Text Component

I can change the color of the label in Flex Builder, I can even BIND the color to a variable and that works, but I can't find the Color PROPERTY in order to change or reference it programatically! What is the ActionScript 3.0 code to change the…
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How to mix Java Swing and JavaFX in Swing application?

I am developing a Java Swing application but I want to also use JavaFX with Swing. Is there any resource for that told how to do that?
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Scala RIA with Lift and

I'm curious what's the "best" way to program RIAs with Scala. I'm new to Scala and would simply like to know where to start learning. It seems obvious that for web-apps Lift is the perfect choice to be combined with Scala. However from what I've…
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Returning Associated Members via Ria DomainService Invoke Method

I got this DomainService method I'm calling from my SL ViewModel using the Invoke attribute: [Invoke] public ServiceModel.Recipy GetRecipyById(int recipyId) { return new Recipy { RecipyId = 1, …
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Maturity of Script# (in comparison to GWT)

I already spent some time developing small projects with the GWT and I recently discovered Script#. Now I am curious about how mature this toolkit is. I am especially interested in the opinion of someone who tried both GWT and Sharp# and therefore…
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Silverlight HTML-JS-DOM Bridge : Real world use cases?

I've seen a lot of stuff online that shows proof of concept tutorials of how Silverlight can be used to enhance web pages by handing tasks off to it to make use of threading, manipulate the DOM, achieve Comet-like functionality etc. It all seems…
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InternetReadFile not getting entire file

I have the following code to download some rss files from servers, but so far I'm just getting incomplete version of my rss file.(?) The code is as follows -…
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why not use java web start instead of other RIA frameworks?

There are many RIA frameworks popping up (flex, extjs, gwt to name very few). If my server is written in Java, why not use java web start? The benefits I see: I get to program in a language that is easy to debug (compared to javascript), I can use…
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How to get 280slides.com functionality?

I have seen 280slides.com and it is really impresive. But its developers had to create their own language. Which platform or language would you use to have an as similar as possible functionality? Is it possible to do something similar in…
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What's the most impressive Javascript/Flash/Silverlight example you've seen?

What is the most impressive "rich internet application" - which is usually Javascript/Flash/Silverlight - that you have experienced? I find Google maps is like Javascript/Flash voodoo and more specifically Google Streeview wins hands down. But I'm…
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Where to obtain JavaFx Authoring tool?

Where can I get the JavaFx Authoring tool?
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