Showing posts with label pivot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pivot. Show all posts

RIA frameworks and HTML 5

Recently when Steve Jobs wrote off Adobe Flash support in iPad, I went ahead and read more about HTML 5.0 and I am convinced that once HTML 5.0  is out, there will be no need of the fancy RIA frameworks like Apache Pivot and Adobe Flex.

HTML 5.0 introduces everything from videos, audio as well as shapes as part of the specification (introduces tags

But indeed HTML 5.0 is the future. If you are planning to develop your products based on Adobe Flex or Apache Pivot then think twice.

Apache Pivot, Platform for building Rich Internet Appplications

Apache Pivot is a framework for building Rich Internet Applications. Pivot seems to have taken inspiration from Flex and Silverlight.

Here is a snippet of overview from Pivot website,

"Pivot applications are written using a combination of Java and XML and can be run either as an applet or as a standalone (optionally offline) desktop application. Pivot includes features that make building modern GUI applications much easier, including declarative UI, data binding, effects and transitions, and web services integration." 

I would personally choose Pivot over Flex or Silverlight as it is easier to integrate builds into Continuous Integration and Maven. Not sure where Pivot will head to but it surely seems a promising technology.