Rich and Smart Clients for Service-Oriented Architectures
Key Points:
- Rich clients will supplant portals as the primary interface to Web Services and Service-oriented functionality in the enterprise by the end of 2007.
- The total opportunity for rich clients for SOAs is over $923 million by 2010 realized by new entrant and incumbent vendors.
- The window of opportunity for new rich client entrants will start to wane when Microsoft makes the Longhorn wave of OS improvements generally available in 2006, at the earliest
- The increasing adoption of devices, mobile computing, and sometimes-connected systems, movement to asynchronous computing, and adoption of e-Forms will mandate widespread and rapid adoption of rich clients.
Table of Contents:
- I. Report Scope 4
- II. The Evolution of the Presentation Layer 5
- 2.1. The Need for the Rich Client 6
- 2.2. Why the Portal is Not Enough 8
- 2.3. Will Applications Deliver their own UI in the future? 9
- 2.4. Understanding the Presentation Layer Requirements of SOAs 10
- III. Implementing Rich User Interactivity on SOAs 11
- 3.1. The Evolving Desktop Operating System 11
- 3.2. Rich Client-focused Technologies 13
- 3.3. The Emerging Smart Client 21
- 3.4. Building More Robust Presentation Layers 22
- 3.5. Emerging Standards for Rich Clients 24
- IV. Market Trends 27
- 4.1. Growth of the Rich Clients for SOAs Opportunity 27
- 4.2. Growth Drivers for Market Adoption of Rich Clients for SOAs 32
- 4.3. Potential Barriers to Adoption of Rich Clients for SOAs 33
- V. Conclusions 33
- 5.1. Key Notes 34
- 5.2. Decision Points 35
- 5.3. Figures 35
- 5.4. Tables 35