Best practices for rapid application development of AJAX based Rich Internet Applications

Abstract

AJAX is a powerful script based approach for Rich Internet Application development, yet AJAX is suffering from various complexities which make the AJAX based Rich Internet Application engineering is difficult and Rapid Application Development is supported inadequately. If we can simplify the AJAX based Rich Internet Application engineering process by providing standards, the Rapid Application Development methodology can be used effectively to raise the productivity and the quality. In this paper, we propose a set of best practices to facilitate the project management of AJAX based Rich Internet Applications — hence utilize Rapid Application Development methodology — in the initial development and post-deployment maintenance, modification and expansion phases. These best practices are meant to increase the realization of the Rich Internet Application and the AJAX adoption — therefore reduce the complexities — by providing a standard structural arrangement for the development project. We plan to design a general architecture for AJAX based Rich Internet Applications and combine with the best practices discussed in this paper to formulate a new platform to support the Rapid Application Development methodology adequate, by increasing the realization, which causes to minimize the complexities.