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Producing Rich Internet Applications with an
Open Source Platform Martin Cadirola Ecotronics
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• What is a RIA?
• Next generation web-based front-end environment
• Improved user experience
• No refreshes, one page interactivity
• Can be deployed as desktop or server application
• Applications include
• Marketing brand reinforcement
• product interactivity
• better conversions!
• Science data visualization
• educational outreach
• real-time information delivery

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• How to produce RIA?
• MM Flash-based front end interacting with
  application servers
• Pros powerful ActionScript language
• Cons know-how, skills
• 2. Macromedia Flex platform, RIA development
  tool
• Pros doesnt require expertise in ActionScript
• Cons targeted to organization with moderate
  budgets
• How could we develop prototypes, enhance user
  experience
• win new project proposals with a better tool?
• Could we leverage open source in some way?

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• The Open Source World
• The open source paradigm shifts the software
  business model to training,
• support and consulting services
• If the know-how is available, open source
  software generally allows
• software production at lower costs
• Open Source software is a growing trend that
  should be explored
• excellent software are available
• Laszlo Systems, California, released their RIA
  platform development to
• the open source community OpenLaszlo 3.0

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• Laszlo Systems The Platform
• Laszlo Systems, California, released their RIA
  platform development to
• the open source community OpenLaszlo 3.0
• OpenLaszlo is a Java-based software, XML-based
  markup w/extensible
• tags and object oriented features uses
  Javascript
• Its application server independent PHP, CF,
  ASP, .NET, Java, etc
• New on version 3.0
• Solo vs server deployment
• Drawing API, dynamic libraries
• Unicode support
• Performance optimization
• Eclipse IDE plug-in

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• Laszlo Systems Examples
• Examples
• Calendar/Weather
• Dashboard
• Amazon store
• Case studies
• Behr
• Yahoo
• Earthlink Mail

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• Installing OpenLaszlo
• Install Java SDK 5.0. JDK5.0 Update 3 (56 Mb)
• Set JAVA_HOME environment variable
• Install Eclipse SDK 3.0.2 (88 Mb)
• Install OpenLaszlo binary (107 Mb)
• Download IDE4LASZLO (19 Mb) and install into
  Eclipse

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• Running OpenLaszlo
• Hello World
• Components
• Applications
• GuestBlox
• Wheres more?
• Learn Laszlo in 10 minutes on Laszlos web site
• http//www.laszlosystems.com/lps/laszlo-in-ten-min
  utes/

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• Examples GuestBlox
• Form writes data to a file with some syntax
• CF template transforms file into XML format,
  following Laszlo syntax
• Laszlo file (.lzx) creates datasources and
  interface
• Server compiles .lzx and creates a .lzo and html
  with embedded code

http//www.openlaszlo.org/wiki/GuestBlox
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• Summary
• Inexpensive way of implementing full-scale and
  prototype RIAs
• Platform can use any application server (that
  includes Coldfusion!)
• Empower developers to create new applications,
  propose exciting
• new projects and take web development to the next
  level!
• As Jeff Bezos says on Internet business and
  applications...
• "What you see today, is just the tip of the
  iceberg."

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RIA Laszlo resources http//www.laszlosystems.c
om http//www.openlaszlo.org http//www.openlasz
lo.org/wiki http//www.mylaszlo.com http//www.b
logblox.com http//alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ide4la
szlo/ http//www.eclipse.org http//www.macromed
ia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/xmlxslt.pdf
http//www.sourceforge.org
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QA
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More questions? Contact Martin
Cadirola martinatecotronicsdotcom 301.591.17
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