Today there are a plethora of frameworks and technologies available for create RIAs. Our customers often ask us to advice them on the best fit technology framework for their needs.
To help our customers, we have classified UI frameworks into the following broad categories:
1. Action based frameworks: These frameworks rely on the HTTP request-response paradigm and are designed around it. Many popular frameworks such as Struts, Spring MVC, ASP.NET MVC belong to this category. These frameworks typically implement the MVC design pattern and are light-weight in nature. They also have a easy learning curve for developers familiar with HTTP semantics.
2. Server Side UI component frameworks: These frameworks abstract away the HTTP protocol semantics and allow developers to work with UI components. The developer drags-n-drops UI controls on the page and writes event handling code for the components. Thus the paradigm is similar to thick client programming (e.g. VB, Power Builder). The most popular server side UI frameworks are JSF based open source projects such as ICEFaces, PrimeFaces, etc. Also classic ASP.NET is server side component based. These frameworks emit JavaScript and AJAX code during the rendering process.
3. Client Side UI component frameworks: In this category, the entire client is downloaded into the browser during the first request and then-after communication with the server is through AJAX requests. Either JSON or XML is the preferred data format for the payload. Examples of these frameworks are Flex/Flash, Ext-JS, MS Silverlight, etc.
To help our customers, we have classified UI frameworks into the following broad categories:
1. Action based frameworks: These frameworks rely on the HTTP request-response paradigm and are designed around it. Many popular frameworks such as Struts, Spring MVC, ASP.NET MVC belong to this category. These frameworks typically implement the MVC design pattern and are light-weight in nature. They also have a easy learning curve for developers familiar with HTTP semantics.
2. Server Side UI component frameworks: These frameworks abstract away the HTTP protocol semantics and allow developers to work with UI components. The developer drags-n-drops UI controls on the page and writes event handling code for the components. Thus the paradigm is similar to thick client programming (e.g. VB, Power Builder). The most popular server side UI frameworks are JSF based open source projects such as ICEFaces, PrimeFaces, etc. Also classic ASP.NET is server side component based. These frameworks emit JavaScript and AJAX code during the rendering process.
3. Client Side UI component frameworks: In this category, the entire client is downloaded into the browser during the first request and then-after communication with the server is through AJAX requests. Either JSON or XML is the preferred data format for the payload. Examples of these frameworks are Flex/Flash, Ext-JS, MS Silverlight, etc.
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