Jon Udell Column: Thin clients and rich data
Gerald Bauer <[email protected]>
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Hello,
Jon Udell has written a column in the strategic
developer series titled "Thin clients and rich data:
BEAs Alchemy promises mobile users a blend of
browser-based ease and rich functionality" over at
InfoWorld.
Jon writes:
In the rich vs. reach debate, rich usually means a
user interface more responsive and more coherent than
a browsers. Prime contenders in the rich-client
struggle are Java, .Net, and Flash. All three can be
used natively or as renderers for a new breed of tools
from Altio, Digital Harbor, Droplets, Laszlo, among
others which create GUI applications for these
platforms. Meanwhile, developers in the trenches know
that rumors of the browsers death are greatly
exaggerated. The browser continues to deliver a killer
combination of reach plus ease of learning and use,
with simplicity of development, no-touch deployment,
and continuous update.
In its modern incarnation, the browser can connect
to Web services, query and transform local XML data,
and dynamically inject results into a live page. Ive
long thought we could be getting a lot more mileage
out of these capabilities than we do. BEAs chief
architect Adam Bosworth thinks so, too, and a project
code-named Alchemy (unveiled last week at BEA eWorld
2004) aims to prove it.
More @
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/11/24OPstrategic_1.html
What's your take on Alchemy? Is a better client-side
cache supporting HTML templates, web services,
scripting and more the way to get more out of Internet
Explorer?
- Gerald
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