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Curl Opens RIA Tools to Community


By David Rubinstein
October 24, 2007 — 
Curl, one of the early entrants into the rich Internet application world, announced today that it will turn over a substantial amount of code to the open source community, to help drive the creation of applications to run on the company's platform.

"We want to remove the concern that Curl is a proprietary platform," said Richard Treadway, vice president of product strategy at Curl. "We are releasing things above the platform that are fairly mature."

The company, which is targeting developers and their managers with the code release, will turn over its Web Services Development Kit, the Curl Data Kit and Curl Development Utilities, hosted at SourceForge under the Apache 2.0 license. The Web services kit provides all the components necessary to support the consumption of SOA services via SOAP and WSDL, and includes an XML document model for processing XML. The data kit gives client-side access to SQLite and supports occasionally connected applications, and the utilities offer best practices for developing Curl applications, according to Treadway.

Curl will not release its runtime to the community, Treadway noted, because it's important that the runtime exist only in one version that is solid and can run anywhere. Curl's solution consists of the runtime, which is given away but not open source, with an IDE for creating Curl applications and the Curl programming language.

A parallel effort to drive development of Curl applications is the simultaneous launch of the developer community Web site, which will include a sandbox for uploading and executing Curl applications for testing, according to Treadway. The site also will offer discussion forums and training, he added.

Curl, which was acquired in 2000 by the Japanese company Sumisho, has seen a move away from client/server in Asia that is only just getting under way in the United States, according to chief strategy officer Jnan Dash. Business-to-consumer sites that require animation and graphics are driving rich Internet applications, he explained, adding that Adobe's Flash and AJAX are prevalent in those cases. "But nobody's addressing the issue of enterprises that have process-centric apps," he claimed. "The problem is how to take high-cost client/server applications to the Web to take advantage of those benefits."

Dash outlined the requirements for an RIA platform for business-critical client/server applications. It must be Web-enabled, will have the ability to create and display highly complex UIs, must support enterprise-class data sets, must run online and offline, and must be high-performance and highly secure. "We think of it," he said, "as a front end to SOA."


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