All you ever wanted to know about rich applications (and maybe more)

• Future applications = Rich Applications (RA)
• RA = Rich Internet Applications (RIA) or Rich Client Applications (RCA)
• RIA preferred over RCA, where/when ever possible – browser rules
• RIA = Flex, AJAX, …
• RCA = Eclipse RCP, maybe .NET Platform, …

assuming ease of use, cross-platform, wide acceptance, not domain specific etc.

Adobe’s decision to buy Macromedia wasn’t so bad after all!

How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs