Silverlight

Application Development

Silverlight, a new entrant in the field of Rich Internet Applications from Microsoft, is rapidly emerging as a strong challenger to Flash, Ajax and Flex. Various factors like Microsoft's huge development community, the high browser share of Internet Explorer, and the company’s dominance of the desktop operating system market are contributing to the increasing consumer adoption of Silverlight.

Advantages of Microsoft Silverlight

• Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in
• Designed to deliver the next generation of .NET based media experiences and Rich Interactive Applications
• Offers a flexible programming model - supports Visual Basic, C#, Python and Ruby
• Seamlessly integrates with existing Web applications
• Freely available for all the supported browsers and platforms
• Supports features like flexible 2D vector graphics, overlaid video, and powerful transformations and animations
• Supports speedy, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video
• Has the ability to deliver high-fidelity media experiences on a broad set of system configurations
• The plug-in is comparatively light, weighing in at just a few megabytes
• Has the ability to update itself automatically
• Supports speedy, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video Silverlight applications run smoothly on the major operating systems - Windows and Mac OS X

Application Life Cycle Services For RIA

Web Spiders’ Application Life Cycle Services are designed and developed to meet your specific business goals and technological requirements. Our in-depth domain knowledge, expertise in project management, tested development methodologies and commitment to industry best practices will free you from the limitations of commercial packaged applications and enable you to

• Develop, implement and manage enterprise applications
• Achieve and maintain a competitive edge in the industry
• Effectively address changing business needs, market conditions and technological advancements

Web Spiders has the experience and expertise to help you with all phases of the Application Life Cycle

• Application Development – Analyzing, designing and building applications to suit exact business requirements; creating customer specific solutions and add-ons
• Application Maintenance – Specifically tailored, long-term maintenance program, enabling enterprises to manage complex applications effectively
• Application Integration –Bringing together data and functionality from various applications and interrelating them; integrating application programs, databases and legacy systems
• Application Testing – Rigorous testing of application limits and features, enabling enterprises to deploy tested and verified solutions
• Application Modernization – Comprehensive modernization strategies to exploit the latest technologies and trends to tackle evolving business needs
• Application Support – Customized support services to ensure that your applications run smoothly and effectively at all times
• Application Retirement – Eliminating redundant and obsolete applications, thereby reducing costs and improving operational efficiency; and preserving the experiences and values gained

Overview of Web2.0

Web 2.0 is a concept phrase coined by O’Reilly Media that refers to a new generation of Internet based services that involve enhanced online collaboration among users.

Web 2.0 provides a new and enhanced makeover for the World Wide Web by providing users with an easier and a faster web. Web 2.0 makes use of the desktop applications at a greater level than the traditional version with static web pages. It makes use of a number of techniques that includes web syndication, AJAX, and public web service APIs. In web syndication, a part of the website is made available to be used by other sites. AJAX is used to create interactive web applications.

Web 2.0 also supports mass publishing like wikis and blogs. Wiki refers to a site that facilitates easy addition, removal and editing of the contents of a site, with or without registration. Blogs are publications of periodic articles on the web. Web 2.0 is often used to describe anything that is new and popular on the World Wide Web.

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Technology Infrastructure of Web 2.0

Web 2.0 has a developing and complex technology infrastructure. The technology includes the use of content syndication, server software, standards-based browsers that have extensions and plugins, client applications, and messaging protocols. All these advanced technology provides Web 2.0 with dissemination, creation, and information storage capability. There are a number of major techniques that Web 2.0 website uses. Some of them include:

• Rich Internet Application techniques that are unobtrusive like AJAX. The Rich Internet Applications are the web applications having the traditional desktop applications functionality and features.
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to describe the presentations of documents that are documented in a markup language. CSS describes them in a stylesheet language.
• Semantically valid XHTML markup and the application of Microformats. The Microformats are the markups that permit expression of semantics in an HTML web page.
• Proper aggregation and syndication of data in RSS/Atom. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is mainly used by the news websites and weblogs for web syndication in XML.
• Significant and clean URLs.
• Publishing Weblogs. Weblogs are the web-based periodic publication of articles.
• Mashup, which is a web application or a site that merges content from various sources into an integral knowledge.
• REST or XML Webservice APIs. Representation State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural approach for dispersed hypermedia systems similar to the World Wide Web.

Web Spiders, a leader in Wireless Application Development, has a dedicated team which specializes in creating custom-made applications for the world’s largest selling mobile operating system for smart phones. If you want to get more out of your smart phones, get in touch with us for all your Symbian application development needs.

Benefits Web2.0 benefits can be twofold :

• Business - ways in which Web2.0 can benefit the business and IT industry
• Users - ways in which Web2.0 can help end-users
  

Flex Application Solution

Web Spiders is a specialist flex applications development company with one of the largest teams of flex developers worldwide.

Adobe Flex is the leading RIA development tool and framework and Web Spiders is the Flex Outsourcing development partner of choice for ISVs, Portals and Corporations across 10 countries.

A brief overview of the Flex architecture is provided below. For more details please visit: www.adobe.com/products/flex/

RIA

Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are web applications that have some of the characteristics of desktop applications, typically delivered by way of a proprietary web browser plug-ins or independently via sandboxes or virtual machines^[1]. Examples of RIA frameworks include Adobe Flex/AIR, Java/JavaFX^[2] and Microsoft Silverlight^[3].

The term was introduced in the 1990s by vendors like Macromedia who were addressing limitations at the time in the "richness of the application interfaces, media and content, and the overall sophistication of the solutions" by introducing proprietary extensions^[4].

As web standards (such as Ajax and HTML 5) have developed and web browsers' compliance has improved there is less need for such extensions, and Javascript compilers with their associated desktop-like widget sets reduce the need for browser extensions even further.^{[citation needed]} HTML 5 delivers a full-fledged application platform; "a level playing field where video, sound, images, animations, and full interactivity with your computer are all standardized"^[5].

It is now possible to build RIA-like Web applications that run in all modern browsers without the need of special run-times or plug-ins. This means that if one could run a modern Ajax-based Web application outside of a web browser (e.g. using Mozilla Prism or Fluid) it would essentially be an RIA^[1], though there is some contention as to whether this is actually the case.^[6]