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Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are becoming increasingly popular. They are called rich because even though they are rendered in the browser, they offer the same user experience as desktop applications, like Microsoft® Word and Excel®.

In RIA, the browser processes the user interface (UI) and the user interactions. In a client/server application, each interaction is passed as a request to the server. The server then processes the request and sends a new page back to the browser for display to the end user. The click-by-click communication with the server makes client/server applications slower than RIAs, with a completely different workflow.

Like desktop applications, RIAs are highly interactive and engaging. At the same time, they offer the management efficiencies and cost savings associated with client/server applications.


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