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Welcome to WEB 2.0 the unchartered waters of new age web applications

People started moving from Desk Top applications to HTML based web applications for global reach over the internet and over the last decade these applications have had a phenomenal growth despite their limitations. They lack some of the important features that normal desktop application can provide such as keyboard support, single page interface,resizeable windows, menu navigation and others. One of the main issues that frustrates the user is to request the server for the entire web page when only some part of the page is to be refreshed. Also it is the common experience that the user has to click thru multiple pages to complete an application which results in several round trips of data transfer to and from the server. This inferior user experience resulted in driving away customers from completing their online transactions and in turn reduction in revenue. This also puts a lot of load on the web server causing over all performance degradation.

Over the last one year, a new wave of applications called 'Rich Internet Applications'(RIAs) have which are basically web based applications like any other HTML based web application but they also have all the nice to have features of a standard desktop application. These applications will have intuitive user interface within a single page and support for localized refresh functionality. In essence RIAs enable rich user experience while retaining the 'Global Reach' of web applications, provide a rich functionality of desktop applications too.

There are a number of ways in which 'Rich Internet Applications' (RIA) can be developed. The most prominent among them are the following

1. Flash Based Rich Internet Applications

These web applications need a flash player plug-in in order them to run in browsers. The response data coming from the servers will be converted into flash format which will be understood by the flash player plug-in inside the browser. These applications can be built on top of any standard J2EE based frameworks and almost all the application servers such as BEA Web logic, IBM Web sphere and other J2EE servers.

2. AJAX Based Rich Internet Applications

Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a Web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. In this approach, browsers do not need any plug-in to transform the data.

At Daisy, we are participating in this WEB 2.0 revolution and we can proudly say that we are in the fore front of designing and developing these Rich Internet Applications. At Daisy, we have the expertise to develop these RIAs which will transform the user experience to new levels. We are doing a pioneering work in designing these RIAs in both flash based as well as AJAX based approaches.

Please feel free to contact Daisy if you have any questions about these new technologies.