Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Rialto: Rich toolkit platform with drag and drop
We somehow haven’t mentioned Rialto here before:
Rialto (Rich Internet Application Toolkit) is a cross browser
javascript widgets library. Because it is technology agnostic it can be
encapsulated in JSP, JSF, .Net or PHP graphic components. Nowadays it
supports pure javascript development , JSP/taglib, PHP, JSF and Python
integration. The .Net integration is on the road.
The purpose of Rialto is to ease the access to rich internet application
development to corporate developers. Ideally a Rialto developer have
neither need to write or understand DHTML, Ajax or DOM code. The target
of Rialto is corporate web applications and not internet web sites.
There is a tool to create drag and drop code, released here, and Rialto Studio is a WYSIWYG editor built in Rialto itself
Hello,
Just to mention that the url for the Rialto Studio is
http://rialto.application-servers.com/wiki/rialtostudio
Cyril Balit
Co-Developer of the Rialto Framework
I browsed the ‘quick overview’ with FF2.
I would say, a small group of essential widgets is included, they are the right choice of first things to build for a widget collection. But they don’t seem to be very polished or full featured. Some of the theme colors are so light! I almost can’t see the resize line of the splitter or the grid columns. Horizontal scrollbars were never hot, never allow those to show all over the place.
Michael : The main difference between Backbase and Rialto is the license. Rialto is Open Source.
@dgirard: point taken. I guess I’m a bit spoiled with all the time I get to polish my controls. Still, I think it’s worth discussing strengths and weaknesses of any toolkit, because in the end the goal is to deliver something that enables a smooth, coherent user experience. In my eyes this goal is not influenced by whether a product is open source or commercial, and I’m interested in seeing how far Ajax can go towards delivering the goods.