How do traditional web development frameworks cope with RIAs?
By RIAs, I am referring to the Flex/Silverlight model (Ajax has
a hybrid model in my view, so I’m not discussing that here since
I don’t want to muddle up the question).
Coming back to topic, I see that the traditional web development
frameworks are inside-out and RIA development as outside-in:
| TRADITIONAL WEB DEV FRAMEWORKS | RIA FRAMEWORKS |
|---|---|
| Flow: controller ⇒ model ⇒ view (pages) | view ⇒ controller ⇒ model |
| Everything built into the framework. View is generated via | |
| templates. | View is designed separately and it’s what runs first. Backend |
| is a bunch of web services. |
Question: How is this resolved practically?
For example, how do people using Django or Ruby on Rails actually
write, say, Flex frontends for their websites?
Do they ditch their templates/rhtml? Do they design the RIA first and
then the web service, or the other way around? … etc.
I couldn’t figure out the answer and since there are people out there
doing it, I’m hoping the
i.e. lazy web gods will answer.