Rich Internet Applications

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is the web based applications that have user interface of traditional desktop based applications with better interactivity and data communication. RIAs utilize relatively robust client-side rendering engines that can present very dense, responsive, and graphically rich user interfaces. It allows data to be cached in the client, allowing a vastly more responsive user interface and fewer round trips to the server than with HTML

We use AJAX (Asynchronous Java and XML) to develop such highly interactively web applications.

• It separate data from user interfaces
• which helps to build the website easy and fast
• It provides better user interfaces and more interactivity
• Applications developed are no longer limited for particular OS or Web Browser
• It has an ability to refresh a small section of a page without needing to reload entire page. Hence, increases speed and response time.