The frameworks available for Rich Internet applications, or RIAs for short, span a range of types and technologies, can be heavyweight or lightweight, open or closed, and just about anything in between.
"The lightweight end of the spectrum has seen most of the attention in recent months, with Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's AIR the new kids in town. But AJAX is still where most of the lightweight action resides," Martin Heller explains. "And despite the recent focus on lightweight app dev, significant developer focus remains on the heavyweight tools in the Microsoft .Net and Sun Java worlds."
We look at the whole spectrum. Read the entire Test Center Guide: RIA tools.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 23, 2008 06:08 AM
![[VoiceIndigo Mobilize - Listen to podcasts on your mobile phone]](http://www.voiceindigo.com/ht/images/mobilize_logo_sm.gif){kind=logo}
