Hello, Jon Udell has written a column in the strategic developer series titled "Thin clients and rich data: BEA’s Alchemy promises mobile users a blend of browser-based ease and rich functionality" over at InfoWorld.
Jon writes: In the rich vs. reach debate, rich usually means a user interface more responsive and more coherent than a browser’s. Prime contenders in the rich-client struggle are Java, .Net, and Flash. All three can be used natively or as renderers for a new breed of tools — from Altio, Digital Harbor, Droplets, Laszlo, among others — which create GUI applications for these platforms. Meanwhile, developers in the trenches know that rumors of the browser’s death are greatly exaggerated. The browser continues to deliver a killer combination of reach plus ease of learning and use, with simplicity of development, no-touch deployment, and continuous update. In its modern incarnation, the browser can connect to Web services, query and transform local XML data, and dynamically inject results into a live page. I’ve long thought we could be getting a lot more mileage out of these capabilities than we do. BEA’s chief architect Adam Bosworth thinks so, too, and a project code-named Alchemy (unveiled last week at BEA eWorld 2004) aims to prove it. More @ http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/11/24OPstrategic_1.html What's your take on Alchemy? Is a better client-side cache supporting HTML templates, web services, scripting and more the way to get more out of Internet Explorer? - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer Mozilla XUL Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mozilla-xul PHP XUL Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-xul Perl XUL Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-xul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk