RIA – small things matter
A friend of mine told me a great real-life example of how RIA’s can help companies save money – without doing anything too fancy, really.
He was looking at a internal web application used by a lot of people. I don’t remember if it was a HRM application or a software license management app, but it really does not matter. The thing was, that for some reason the app was used by a lot – counting both the number of users as well as time spend by those users. The apps main section is a long page with lots of drop-down menus. Each drop-down selection affects possible values for other drop-downs, thus requiring a refresh of the whole page after each drop-down selection.
Now this selecting-reloading-selecting procedure for that single page takes many minutes to complete. Multiply that with the number of users (a lot) and the number of use times per day (a lot) and you’re basically throwing money out of the window.
Enter Flex. Convert that page of the app to MXML, make it reload the contents of the drop-downs without reloading the whole page and: voila! You’re one-hour effort just saved hundreds of hours work-time every freakin’ month. Simple.
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Of course this particular functionality can easily be done with AJAX for a whole lot less money.
Less money for tools or developer time?