ANDROID: A development Platform for GPhone

Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile application development that includes an middleware and key applications development module in it. For using tools and APIs, to develop an application on the Android platform Java programming language is being used. This OS is based on Linux operating system. It only supports the managed codes as the programs, not in native codes.

Qbit Systems has been initiated its development efforts to cater the niche segment of the Android development.

This platform is adaptable in 2D and 3D graphics as well as in VGA smart phone layouts it also supports a wide variety of connectivity technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, CDMA, etc. and some audio, video and images formats like MP3, gif, Mpeg, etc.

There is a SDK (Software Development Kit) is available to develop an application for using this platform. The SDK is having a few of development tools like debugger, documentation, libraries, etc. which can be used on Windows XP, Vista or X86 based platforms. Android is a complete multitasking environment where apps can run in parallel.

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Flex-ble Construction of RIA

Adobe Flex Builder 3.0 is an Eclipse-based IDE for developing RIAs on Adobe’s Flash platform and the open source Flex SDK. Although you could use any text editor to cobble Action Script and MXML into a Flex app, Flex Builder 3.0 delivers a streamlined experience for RIA development and Flex project code management.

Flex Builder provides easy graphical tools for laying out rich GUI’s that creates an MXML code. It excels for making real-time dashboards and the credit goes to graphing and charting widgets.

What draws attention is better visual layout tools and more control over CSS, new wizards for WSDL introspection and back-end data connectivity, and plug-ins that augment workflow between developers and design teams running Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications (such as Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks). The WSDL introspection wizard makes it easy to pull together Action Script and Web services inside Flex, while the CS3 plug-ins provide MXML-savvy templates that allow CS3 users to create Flex controls with familiar tools, versus learning to design directly in Flex.

Flex 3.0 in building RIA goes a long way towards getting higher-quality applications into production faster. Other improvements, such as real-time charting and advanced data grids, help give your Web applications a better extent and extra shine.

The Flex Builder 3.0 IDE builds the typical package, including code and graphical views, a controls palette, project hierarchy and debug views, and a properties panel. Anyone familiar with Eclipse will feel right at home. Visual Studio developers may miss such features as the ability to split code windows or to simultaneously display code and layout windows as in Dreamweaver, but these are minor issues. One can easily jump over to UI creation, dragging components for layout, navigation, and data access from the pallet to the work canvas.

QBit systems is gearing up the Flex projects for the Web (Flash player) or the desktop (running on AIR) for building RIA. QBit Creates AIR projects for revealing additional pallet components for working with native file systems (tree, list, history) and for embedding an HTML browser into the application which is seemingly useful for quick import and redeployment of existing Web site assets to the desktop.

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RIA based on Adobe AIR

AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) ties together a host of Web technologies and enables RIAs (Rich Internet applications) to run outside of the browser on the user’s local desktop. Those underlying technologies can be Adobe’s own Flex, Flash, and Action Script, for example, or just plain old HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX libraries.

The resulting application gains access to OS features such as dragging and dropping to and from the local file system, clipboard access for cutting and pasting between AIR and other applications, network connectivity, encrypted local storage, and perhaps most noteworthy, offline functionality.

The outcomes can be amazing. AIR applications can take on either a custom or native appearance. In particular, data-driven dashboards really sing when freed from browser constraints, as Nasdaq’s Market Replay application demonstrates.

The SDK is a command line toolkit for packaging and deploying Web applications as AIR applications. It includes a schema template for generating the AIR manifests which define various properties of each application including name, security certificate, and files included within the package.

AIR incorporates dual engines – the Flash/Action Script JIT and Web Kit – to support applications built in either Flex/Flash/MXML or HTML/JavaScript. The underlying application components are packed into an AIR installer file, which is little more than a zip file containing program assets, the XML manifest, and a digital certificate to verify authenticity.

The command line tools are easy enough to work with and you can use any text editor to create an AIR application. Adobe provides plug-ins for creating AIR applications in Flash CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3.

AIR applications can take advantage of protocols including FTP, AMF (Action Script Messaging Format), JSON, SOAP, and RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol for streaming media), and they can communicate with Adobe Lifecycle and BlazeDS servers using server-side RPC and messaging calls.

Security is carefully addressed and local storage is protected by 128-bit encryption. AIR applications are digitally signed and verified at runtime. Programmers can control via OS registry key. And because AIR applications are treated as native, personal firewalls can examine and block AIR applications on an individual basis. However, given the level of potential exposure, AIR can write to any location on the hard disk and gain immediate network access.

QBit Systems is one of the leading outsourcing providers of Rich Internet Application (RIA) development services to its large number of clientele. QBit’s development of RIA using Adobe AIR offers a low-cost alternative to the organizations running complex applications with “fat client” technology and making it easier for the users to work with soft-wares by means of making more productive soft-wares and reducing labor costs while growing sales. QBit helps breaking away from page-base architecture which reduces the load on the web-servers and overall traffic.

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E-COMMERCE

E commerce stands for the Electronic-Commerce. As the name clears the meaning that by E-commerce a user can interact with others to buy or sell some sort of products and services over the electronic system like internet. The main support to e commerce trade is of internet. There are various ways to conduct the commerce like internet marketing, electronic data interchange, online transaction etc.

E-commerce is basically the transportation of the physical items as well as virtual items (mostly). All of the big retailer must be present on the World Wide Web so that can conduct the electronic commerce on the internet. Basically E-commerce is the sale of the business and the transfer of the data from one user to another so that they can easily deal over the product.

E-commerce is helpful for the businesses as they can use this to send the urgent documents from one place to other and is also useful for the common person to interact directly with the market products by using the internet and can buy or sell the products. There are various methods to use the e commerce application like in today’s life maximum persons are using ATM (asynchronous transfer mode), credit cards, telephone banking, online E-commerce solutions etc.

E-Commerce has been a major thrust behind the proliferation of the Internet, particularly the WWW. The huge growth of virtual communities – people getting together in interest groups online – promises to shift the balance of economic power from the manufacturer to the consumer. Virtual communities erode the marketing and sales advantages of large companies.

E-Commerce is the paperless exchange of routine business information using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and other technologies, including Electronic Mail (E-Mail), electronic bulletin boards, facsimile machines, and Electronic Funds Transfer. There are two overall categories of E-Commerce:
• Business-to-Consumer genre.
• Business-to-Business commerce

Business-To-Consumers
Such markets include shopping malls, single-vendor retail stores and electronic software delivery. Each has different technical needs. For example, a shopping mall sells a multitude of vendors’ products and may need to track payments made to various vendors and transactions performed by consumers. A software distribution site offers download capabilities, user registration capabilities, mirrored servers that provide the software, and some form of technical support.

You may not be able to make sense of the mail, phone and regulation systems in all your potential international markets, but with a WWW site, you can open up a dialogue with international markets as easily as with the company across the street. In fact, your postings are certain to bring international opportunities your way, whether it is part of your plan or not. Furthermore, you can find markets for your products that could never reach you before at a reasonable cost and to have a solution for every need to automate this process.

Business-To-Business
Many of the above prospects and concerns that take place in the business-to-consumer arena also apply to the case of business-to-business.

However, there are some significant differences. The major difference is that business-to-business electronic data must be integrated with both companies accounting systems. In effect, the purchasing company’s accounting system must interact with the supplier’s own system. While most of the business-to-consumer transaction takes place on the Internet, business-to-business transactions are usually done over an extranet.

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Enterprises considering how to lower technology overheads, speed time to market, and leverage their investments in data quality, without sacrificing productivity or customer responsiveness have started  looking at ways to migrate critical business processes away from client-server applications to a new generation of Internet applications.

Using the Internet as IT infrastructure lowers costs and simplifies service to disparate user environments and devices which improves online interaction with customers and partners. But there’s always been a catch: Internet technology, designed to display pages and extended to communicate limited information in forms, has not delivered solutions to the need for robust, feature-rich applications until now.

RIA is helping local and International corporations change the way they work online. Feature-rich applications previously experienced only the desktop are now fully possible on the Internet.

Targeted at IT personnel, it automates creation of the “canned” report layouts for the end-users. End users can run, PDF print and Excel export these reports, without being able to continue the changes. Targeted to end-users, it enables clients to get rid of the dependency on IT when it comes to any report modification, ranging from simple formatting changes and adding/removing columns to introducing arbitrary grouping, adding sophisticated formula-based column and being able to persist the change to the report, optionally saving it as new report or report template.

QBit Systems is at the forefront of RIA technologies and is well-known in the RIA development community. Some of its top developers have made significant contributions in the development of RIA and is serving the global business needs with remarkable outcomes.