Direct RIA

What is Direct RIA

Direct RIA is a technology designed to increase developer’s productivity by integrating frontends and backends of applications transparently to deliver a rich and engaging user experience.

Direct RIA is a robust and comprehensive rich internet application engine which morphs any client (web browser, mobile device) into an efficient and engaging environment. Direct RIA maximizes developer productivity by allowing direct access to user interfaces, databases and web services. Direct RIA minimizes development time and cost by transparent and automatic synchronization between client and server.


The best way to deliver RIA is without being aware of its existence.


Direct RIA Features
  • Pure Java
  • Direct UI access
  • Direct database access
  • Direct Web Service access
  • Server push (Comet)
  • No JavaScript client code
  • 100% event driven
  • 100% component based
  • Live Data, Drag & Drop, Bookmarking,…
  • Ajax, Mobile, Flash, ….

  • Why Direct RIA

    Direct RIA = Substantial productivity gain; fast prototyping; impressive user experience; quick and easy learning; maximize programmer happiness!


    Values of Direct RIA
  • Substantial productivity gain
  • Fast prototyping
  • Impressive user experience
  • Quick and easy learning
  • Spontaneous presentation update
  • Secure communication
  • No data access code needed
  • Easy maintenance


  • How to implement Direct RIA(s)

    Why not develop rich enterprise applications with ZK, with over 1,500,000 deployments already there is no reason not to deploy it NOW!

    ZK is the most proven Direct RIA framework available. With over 1,500,000 deployments, ZK is the Direct RIA technology of choice within Enterprise. ZK empowers a variety of companies and institutions, from small business to Fortune 500 companies in over 193 countries, including Barclays, Sun Microsystems, Swiss Re, Alcatel-Lucent, Unisys, and tens of thousands of companies throughout the world.

    please refer to: who's using