RIA's (Rich Internet Applications) seem so old school now, I was excited about them back in 2002, when the term had been newly coined by Macromedia.
A few trends to take notice of, O'Reilly Radar has just announced that their Flex 2 book has absolutely flown out the door.
There are also some great improvements in the overall workflow with the new CS3 suite from Adobe. I've been using Fireworks CS3 for a few days now and stumbled upon all the Flex UI components in the library, which now allows you to export your PNG straight to MXML. On the face of it that sounds awesome but I think it is a bit 'version 1' to be called decent just yet, though the thinking is definately going in the right direction. I'm so behind the idea of allowing analysts to build rapid prototypes, as they say a picture tells 1000 words.
The upgrade for Flash, now called Flash CS3 allows you to export your flash movie clips (with component like functionality) as SWC's and import them into Flex. This is really cool.
Just downloaded Dreamweaver CS3 last night, so haven't taken that for a run yet. Will post a note when I have.
Well, anyway, things are finally hotting up in this space. Microsoft with their recent Silverlight announcement and now Sun with Java FX. There are some really impressive demos posted on the JavaFX site. Its totally open source. The only glitch I've noticed is the initial lag to view the apps - seems real sluggish to me. But the output is damn impressive. The Tesla site rocks.
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