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RIA Technology enables Mobility for Insurance Applications
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Re: RIA Technology enables Mobility for Insurance Applications
Have been running similar distributed application systems for my company (and its customers) for over two years now - RIA clients coupled to SOA middletier:ah...been there done that - and its great!
Here are the salient things to take away from all this:
1) RIA clients inherently deliver a much superior end-user experience
2) SOA middle-tier is actually much easier (and ultimately more flexible or versatile) to develop than comparable web framework style of server-side application. The latter, despite the attempts at MVC, are inevitably joined at the hip to some particular framework and seldom are ever developed with repurposeful services.
Because I'd gone thru the whole AJAX phase back in 2000/2001 I didn't bother repeating what was essentially an inferior approach:
my AJAX web app experience in the early days of DHTML
Final observation: SOA is best when implemented with asynchronous messaging as loose coupling is the name of the game:
Links to my JMS writings
Re: RIA Technology enables Mobility for Insurance Applications
How did you deal with authentication and securing the access to the services?