Hello,
David Orme who leads the Eclipse Visual Editor
Project has written up a blog story titled "The Ideal
Application Architecture".
David writes:
Recent, Ed Burnette of EclipsePowered identified
several options for what the application platform of
the future might look like and solicited feedback
about what the rest of us thought would most likely be
the winner. His choices were:
* More and more clever use of DHTML in web
browsers, e.g., oddmail, outlookwebaccess, bindows
* A rejuvinated Browser War that spurs lots of
innovation in browser enhancements, e.g., Apple
Dashboard, what-wg
* Standards group innovation plus better standards
compliance, e.g., w3c forms, css3
* “Smart-rich” apps that run like fat applications
(with most logic on the client) but are updated and
managed automatically over the network, e.g., Eclipse
RCP
* “Thin-rich” apps that provide a nice interactive
API for the developer but are deployed using a shard
thing client framework with most logic on the server,
e.g., X windows, flex
* Something different, e.g., XAML and XUL
The difficulty with this question is that it does not
identify any of the forces that are shaping the
application environment today, so it does not leave us
any closer to an answer. Here is my assesment of the
forces that are shaping application architectures
today, intended to help answer the above question:
* How rich should a client interface be?
* Where does the business logic belong?
* How are enterprise client applications kept
updated and current?
* What platforms have existing and/or developing
vendor support in the industry?
More @
http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_visual_editor/2004/07/16
What's your take? Do you have any answers to
David's questions? What is your ideal application
architecture?
- Gerald
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