Client side internet technologies in critical infrastructure systems

Abstract

This paper assesses the applicability of client side Internet technologies in software solutions for critical infrastructure systems (CIS). It contains an in-depth analysis of four significant and well known development platforms, namely JavaScript with jQuery, the Google Web Tookit, Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash/Flex. They were compared by using the ISO software quality characteristics as comparison criteria. Each of the technologies was applied in a real-life project and the results summarize the authors' experience. The ultimate goal of this research is to enable software engineers to more easily choose a client-side Internet technology when developing a new software solution for the CIS domain.