RIA Technologies in Banking on the Example of Verax eBanking Suite

This paper provides an overview on the Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology in the Internet banking area and the Verax eBanking Suite in particular. RIA is a collective term used to describe technologies that enable the creation of rich applications running in the web-browser environment. The term itself was coined in 2001 by Macromedia (now Adobe). Leading RIA technologies include Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX. Some authors include also AJAX, Curl, Apache Wicket as RIA platforms, this paper however refers to these as "Classic" web application technologies.