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| Visual WebGui Releases the First Empty Client Platform Gizmox, the developer of the Visual WebGui open source platform, has announced a new development and deployment concept known as Empty Client. As of now, the only options for developers looking to create rich, interactive line of business applications or migrate their legacy desktop applications to the Web has been to adopt the traditional "Thick" or "Thin" client approach with or without AJAX as an enhancing technology. Each of these choices meant designing the application in a multi-tier architecture using multiple languages and technologies. Migrating legacy desktop to the Web meant rewriting the application using Web-oriented technologies and development patterns that consist of the same downsides. On top of this, the end user had to have a platform-specific viewer installed on their terminal. When using current frameworks the development and deployment cycles were lengthy and costly, filled with compromises and limited access. Gizmox's, Visual WebGui Empty Client allows, for the first time, support of developments and deployments of complex line of business applications with unprecedented simplicity, bullet-proof security and unlimited complexities, all at a dramatically reduced cost. Visual WebGui Empty Client applications can run on desktop or in Web environments using the same source code, and can be viewed from any standard browser. The Empty Client approach means the entire application flow, User Interface (UI) logic and validations are developed and processed on the server while the browser serves as a "display" for the output and a "receptor" for user input. As with "Thin" client's server-based computing, most of the processing is done on the server. The term Empty Client was adopted to describe and differentiate the paradigm, because unlike most "Thin Clients", that require installation (Citrix for example), Visual WebGui doesn't. With Visual WebGui server state "screens" simply reflect to the client. As with the "Thin Client" approach, the client also captures user input and reflects the incremental changes back to the client all over a unique and highly optimized communication channel within standard HTTP/XML. In the case of Visual WebGui there is no need to consider the "screen" as a purely graphical representation of the application, but rather a series of related components which change according to the application logic. Gizmox released Visual WebGui in early 2008 and is poised to move into the cloud computing market. Since its release there have been over 250,000 downloads of Visual WebGui's DHTML version. Visual WebGui is a 'Web like Desktop' open source platform that offers Rapid Application Development (RAD) Framework for line of business Microsoft AJAX & Silverlight applications. Visual WebGui cuts down development time (proven up to 90%) without compromising on extensibility, scalability, performance, security or complexity. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |