Rich Internet Applications with Real-time push mechanism

摘要

From last two decades the internet has became a house hold source of information,education, sales, marketing, advertising etc. It has become a part of everyone’s life up tosome extent. Everyday more and more people are getting introduced to internet and use itfor different reasons. The reason could be as simple as paying bills or anything else.There are different user groups using internet with different level of knowledge, and forthis reason, the tasks they want to perform should be design in such a way that all theuser groups no matter what knowledge background they come from, should feelcomfortable performing them. This brings a responsibility on the developers of websitesand web applications to implement well designed products which are suitable for usageof everyone.This report addresses the traditional web application development, and brings newmethods in discussion which could potentially make the development process andimplementation easier and richer. The report introduces the audience to the newterminology called as RIA. RIA uses a different technology stack for development of webapplications then the traditional methods used currently. The report discusses the benefitsand limitations of the RIA technologies and what can be achieved through it. Further theauthor talks about the efficiency which can be gained in terms of execution time andrichness which could be gained in terms of graphical user interface through the usage ofRIA technology stack.The author discusses a particular web application called as GWT, and develops a smallpart of it using RIA technology stack as a prototype, and compares the efficiency in termsof “execution time” with the same component when developed using traditional methods.The author concludes with the discussion on the results of the tests performed on thedevelopment prototype. The report is an interesting introduction to RIA and would serveras an initial step to learn about the technologies under discussion.