http://wldj.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Nolan Wright Copyright 2008 WEBLOGIC JOURNAL Fri, 16 May 2008 06:19:00 GMT WEBLOGIC JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://wldj.sys-con.com/read/513263.htmhttp://wldj.sys-con.com/read/513263.htm Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:45:00 GMT The world of web development is moving away from MVC-based web architectures and towards a client/server model that is probably best described as RIA + SOA, where RIA represents the rich user interface and SOA represents the services that it consumes. There has been a lot of buzz around rich Web 2.0 applications, but they will not become mainstream until the next generation of web platforms emerge - fully integrated platforms that enable RIA + SOA.