Building RIAs: Java ME and OpenLaszlo

If you don't know what Rich Internet Applications are, then you aren't keeping up with this week's buzzwords.

Just to fill in any gaps, RIAs are "web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. RIAs typically transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the web client but keep the bulk of the ... back on the application server."

Today's big news about RIA is that Sun Microsystems and Laszlo Systems are collaborating to bring Laszlo's RIA development platform to Java ME enabled devices. Laszlo Systems is the original developer of OpenLaszlo, an open-source platform for building and deploying Web 2.0 applications. OpenLaszlo technology has been widely adopted by application and service providers in the consumer, enterprise, education and government markets. Laszlo Systems provides updates, training and support for OpenLaszlo and offers rich-experience web-based digital life applications such as Laszlo Mail, built on OpenLaszlo.

The collaboration wil enable OpenLaszlo applications to run on devices supporting Java Micro Edition (Java ME). With this move, Sun and Laszlo are actively contributing resources to a new project for the OpenLaszlo community, code-named "Orbit."

If you want to find out more about Laszlo Systems and OpenLaszlo, listen to Dr. Dobb's audio interview with Jim Grandy, Director of OpenLazlo at Laszlo Systems.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 01:44 PM  Permalink