RIA, rich Internet applications, are Web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. The term "Rich Internet Application" was introduced in a Macromedia white paper in March 2002, though the concept had been around for a number of years before that under different names such as: Remote Scripting, X Internet, Rich (web) clients, Rich web application UX: The scope of the field is directed at affecting "all aspects of the user’s interaction with the product: how it is perceived, learned, and used." After defining all of this ria stuff, we do some research on how to work with this concepts on smalltalk…
ST is good for modeling and think new domains Flex is good for UI and is a great tool to maximize the UX concepts Anyway/actually, i dont have to say here why ST is good, right?
Cyclical reference not supported (?) AnyType not supported (?) Singleton in Flex Debug with multiple modules (mainApp-debug.swf) AS is not the state of the art in OOP (for example you can’t have many constructors) Security
This model explote best from both worlds This is like a good model where you delegates responsibilities to who is better for each work This is not THE WAY, this is just ONE WAY The overall conclusion here is to use RIAs , no matter wich one, and connect it with Smalltalk , no matter wich one, through web services Power of distiction. Better comunication with the user
