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November 05, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Curl RIA platform advances

TAGS: Application development

Curl this week is unveiling a beta release of Curl Rich Internet Application Platform Version 6, for building enterprise Web applications.

The product works with the Curl language and is intended for applications with large data sets. The company is announcing version 6 of its desktop system as a well as an IDE for building applications.

Curl could be considered an alternative to AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript) and supports implementation of dynamic Web applications, said Richard Treadway, vice president of product marketing at Curl.

"Curl is on the far end of that scale on the enterprise side, where you have hundreds of thousands of records and you have to visualize on the client," Treadway said.

APIs, toolkits and underlying libraries for Curl are open source.

New in version 6 is Macintosh support and skinnable controls for making the UI and components. AJAX interoperability in the release enables Curl applications to be called from an AJAX HTML page and vice versa. "If you wanted to use Google Maps from a Curl app, you would need this," Treadway said.

Curl requires a plugin, which serves as a runtime piece hosting applications that execute on the desktop.

Version 6.0 is available in late-November, with a base entry price of $12,000 for the runtime and $859 for the developer component.

Posted by Paul Krill on November 5, 2007 05:10 AM

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