being succesfull with ajax and ria

8/14/2019 Being Succesfull with Ajax and RIA

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Business Applications Meet the

Nexawebs technology transitions business

applications to the Web, modernizing a companysbest practices and empowering innovation.


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Where were our Customers

Requiring a Desktop in a Browser

Experience The applications performance can have a

positive or negative on $$$$

Moving from an legacy System PowerBuilder, VB, Coldfusion, Cobol

They had tried building the applicationseveral different ways and failed.

Have a portfolio of applications to build.


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What is a Desktop in a Browser

Complex, composite applications with

dynamic workflow Desktop performance, but in a web

application

Large and/or real-time data throughput

Online/Offline and Occasionally Connecteddeployments

Heads Down, Keyboard only navigation


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Why were the customers

Focus


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An industry of Buzzwords

Rich Internet Applications

Enterprise Web Applications

Ajax

Thin

X-Internet

Rich Internet ClientsWeb 2.0

Web 3.0

Social

Mashups

Rich Enterprise Application

Wikis


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Rich Enterprise Application

Layer on all the Products

Rich Internet Applications

Enterprise Web Applications

Ajax

Thin

X-Internet

Rich Internet ClientsWeb 2.0

Web 3.0

Social

Wikis

Mashups

Java

Swing/SWT.NET,

Win32

Silverligh

t

Adobe Flex

AIR

JavaF

X

EXT

Dojo

GWT

jQuery

BackBase

Nexaweb

Platform

Mootools

200+More


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People who have not created an Ajax

Gary Coleman Mary Carey


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Focus

The business requirements

Development software is meant to solve businessrequirements and not technical ones

On your core strengths Client-side vs. Server-side

JavaScript vs. Java, PHP, Ruby

Application Profile It doesnt always need a rich front-end

On what made the Web Successful Dynamic and Distributed

Client-centric and Server-driven


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Modernizing a Portfolio of

Legacy

Applications

Rich

Enterprise

J2EE

SOA

RIA Mashup

ApplicationApplication

Application

VisualBasic

PowerBuilder

CICSCobol

OracleForms

Enhance

Extend

Transform


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WML

Simple

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TML

Full

(x)HT

ML

Lightw

eight

Ajax

Single

-page

Ajax

AjaxW

idget

Brow

serP

lugin

Desk

top/Of

fline

UserExperienceRequirement

Todays Application Profiles


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Full

(x)HT

ML

Lightw

eight

Ajax

Single

-page

Ajax

AjaxW

idget

Brow

serP

lugin

EXT

Dojo 0.4

CommercialProducts

A Closer look at Ajax

YUI

GWT

jQuery

Prototype

Nexaweb Ajax Client

core dijit dojox

Mootools

JSF


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Full

(x)HT

ML

Lightw

eight

Ajax

Single

-page

Ajax

AjaxW

idget

Brow

serP

lugin

NexawebJava

Client

Flash/Flex

A Closer look at Plugins

SilverLight

Others

JavaFX


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Joe The Developer


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Things that will make Joe

Its still a Web Application

Know your application Requirements Pick the Right Toolkit/Platform/Framework

Dont over do it

Dont under estimate JavaScript Performance will be a problem

Start with services


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When to pick Plugin vs. Ajax?

Ajax Short App Lifecycle/Quick

use 3rd Party Components Zero Install mashup / web2.0 / Ajax RIA B2C.com Simple Page-Based Enhance a .com - add

widgets, messaging,animation

Portal Integration

Plugin Long App Lifecycle/Long

Use Full screen Large data lots of screens High Performance custom

UI

lots of realtime data(forExchange)

maintenanceproductivity

development tools(debugging)

data entry - call enter$ = Key stroke/min


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Modernization: Enhance-Extend-

DataReusableBusiness

Components

ReusableServices

Unified View

ENHANCE

EXTEND

TRANSFORM

Enrich HTML web pages/portals with rich Ajax UICombine and re-use multiple technology widgetsCreate new Enterprise Mashup applications

Extend legacy assets lifecycle with new richUI

Consolidate custom functionality, seamlessly

Capture and fully document legacy codeHarvest business rules and IPAuto-generate Enterprise Web Applications


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