Subject: Advanced Internet Technology

Topic: RIA and Mashup

Difficulty: Low

RIA- Rich Internet Application

• RIA are developed as web application behaving like desktop applications in their look and feel.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.