New Delhi: With Internet becoming an integral part of everything we do, 'Web-enabled' is the buzzword. All software applications, be it an Inventory Tracking System or a Human Resource Management System in an enterprise or for that matter a gaming applications need to be web-enabled, for it to be popular.
End users are looking for features and functionality of a traditional desktop application to be mapped into a web application giving rise to what are called Rich Internet Applications- RIAs.
According to Wikipedia, the term RIA was introduced in a Macromedia whitepaper back in 2002 and has since then been referred to with names like Remote Scripting by Microsoft, X Internet by Forrester Research, Rich Client etc.
According to a Wikipedia definition "RIA are web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. RIAs typically transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the web client but keep the bulk of the data (i.e maintaining the state of the program, the data etc) back on the application server.
What is OpenLaszlo?
OpenLaszlo is an XML-Based open source platform that can be used to create applications with a rich user interface. Developed originally by Laszlo Systems, applications built on OpenLaszlo can run on all popular web browsers and desktop operating systems from a single XML code base.
The OpenLaszlo platform offers rapid application development with declarative XML markup and Javascript; two deployment modes SOLO via any web server or with the OpenLaszlo Server via a Java servlet container or J2EE application server.
The OpenLaszlo APIs provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative UI. An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries.
Sun, Laszlo and Project Orbit…
In a recent tie up, between Sun Microsystems and Laszlo Systems, OpenLaszlo applications can run on devices supporting the Java Micro Edition (Java ME) platform. Under the collaboration Sun and Laszlo will actively contribute resources to Project Orbit, a new take-off from the OpenLaszlo community. Sun and Laszlo will work together to bridge OpenLaszlo's expressive markup language, LZX, with the ubiquity and power of the Java ME platform, says an OpenLaszlo press release.
According to the OpenLaszlo website, "With more than 3.8 billion Java devices including 1.2 billion Java technology-powered phones in the world today, Sun has one of the most widely distributed client runtime environments. Support for OpenLaszlo applications further enhances one of the key strengths of the Java platform - the ability to support development environments and authoring tools targeting a broad spectrum of developer skills and preferences."
Sun and Laszlo expect to release the first demonstrable Project Orbit application running under the Java ME platform later this year at http://www.openlaszlo.org
For further information on Project Orbit and its goals, please visit http://www.java.net or http://www.openlaszlo.org/orbit
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