RIA

+ What are Rich Internet Applications:

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The term RIA refers to a heterogeneous family of solutions, characterized by a common goal of adding new capabilities to the conventional hypertext-based Web. RIAs combine the Webs lightweight distribution architecture with desktop applications interface interactivity and computation power, and the resulting combination improves all the elements of a Web application (data, business logic, communication, and presentation).

Wikipedia defines:
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. Adobe Flash, JavaFX, and Microsoft Silverlight (Wikipedia,as of August 2011)
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are web applications, which use data that can be processed both by the server and the client. Furthermore, the data exchange takes place in an asynchronous way so that the client stays responsive while continuously recalculating or updating parts of the user interface. On the client, RIAs provide a similar look-and-feel as desktop applications and the word "rich" means particularly the difference to the earlier generation of web applications. RIAs are basically characterized by a variety of interactive operating controls, the possibility of on-/offline use of the application, and the transparent usage of the client and server computing power and of the network connection.( Marianne Busch and Nora Koch , December 2009).
A rich Internet application (RIA) is a Web application designed to deliver the same features and functions normally associated with desktop applications. RIAs generally split the processing across the Internet/network divide by locating the user interface and related activity and capability on the client side, and the data manipulation and operation on the application server side.( Margaret Rouse , September 2007 )

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