Wiley Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond 978-0-470-08280-5 Manuale Utente
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978-0-470-08280-5
What Characterizes Rich
Internet Applications?
“Let me just say just one word to you, young man — plastics!”
— Older male character giving investment advice to Dustin Hoffman’s
character, Benjamin Braddock, in the 1964 film The Graduate
First things first. This is a book for software developers by software developers. As developers, we
are inclined to jump to the technical detail immediately. When we learn a new language, for exam-
ple, we probably want to understand concepts such as typing, declaration, variable assignment,
containment, and control flow structures: iteration, test and branching, modularization, and so on.
This chapter is going to be a little different, but no less valuable.
are inclined to jump to the technical detail immediately. When we learn a new language, for exam-
ple, we probably want to understand concepts such as typing, declaration, variable assignment,
containment, and control flow structures: iteration, test and branching, modularization, and so on.
This chapter is going to be a little different, but no less valuable.
This chapter lays a foundation for why learning the RIA design approach is important. In that
sense, this chapter is going to be more “philosophical” than any other chapters in this book. It has
only a couple code examples, primarily explaining the software revolution under way, and help-
ing you understand the nature of the revolution. The rest of the book discusses code and coding;
here you discover what’s different and how you can profit from it. The discussion tilts toward
independent software writers, by explaining how the competitive landscape is changing; but
developers within the enterprise will benefit from understanding how to make their company
more competitive externally, by building more scalable and user-centric public user experiences;
and more effective internally, by building better collaboration and coordination tools.
sense, this chapter is going to be more “philosophical” than any other chapters in this book. It has
only a couple code examples, primarily explaining the software revolution under way, and help-
ing you understand the nature of the revolution. The rest of the book discusses code and coding;
here you discover what’s different and how you can profit from it. The discussion tilts toward
independent software writers, by explaining how the competitive landscape is changing; but
developers within the enterprise will benefit from understanding how to make their company
more competitive externally, by building more scalable and user-centric public user experiences;
and more effective internally, by building better collaboration and coordination tools.
In that spirit, read on to find out what makes RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) something worth
paying attention to.
paying attention to.
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