Technologies For Developing Rich Internet Applications
RIA (Rich Internet Application) is the web application with features of desktop applications delivered by browser
. Adobe Flash, JAVA and Silverlight are the current Frameworks used to create Rich Internet applications. Adobe Flash has introduced Flex SDK an Open source frame work for developing Rich internet applications. All the server side technologies such as PHP, JAVA, J2EE supports Flex and that makes it first choice in Rich internet application development. Adobes Flex 4 is just on the edge of hitting the market. Flex4 SDK has added some extra power on designing the flex applications as its enabled with tools.
RIAs must run on multiple browsers so it is vital that your selected technology must support all the browsers for smooth functioning. Here Flex fits best because of its consistent performance for the major browser, desktop and operating systems. Flex benefited with the massive user group of Adobe Flash as the application runs on Flash Player. There may not be many computers in the world which dont have Flash Player installed. Here when you plan to develop rich internet application using Flex with PHP or Flex with JAVA the main concern is skills and professionalism of the resource. How to find a best suitable Flex development Company is really a brainstorming question. You can check the Flex Rich internet application developed by the company and have the idea on what sort of quality and skills the Flex Company possess.
Recently Flex is likely to catch an attention of the java developers. Flex is an open source so there is no heavy license fee to pay for rich internet application development. JAVA EE and Flex turn into a deadly combination for Enterprise applications. Flex is one of the very rare framework which improves developers and users experience. Flex applications are built using a combination of ActionScript (AS) 3.0 and MXML. Action script is similar to java scripts so it is familiar in developers. An action based layout engine in XML is MXML. So for developing rich applications it is wise decision to use Flex as front-end with PHP or JAVA as back-end.