Rich Internet Applications. Technical Comparison and Case Studies of AJAX, Flash, and Java based RIA

Abstract

Web-based applications have jumped in use and popularity in the last decade, beginning with Amazon.com’s e-commerce Web site in the 90’s to today’s enterprise resource planning and business intelligence applications. Using a browser, end users can book airline tickets, bid on auctions, check email, buy and sell stocks, submit tax forms, or listen to music from any networked computer. If this was the first wave of web applications, the second big wave is yet to come in the form of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).