Facing Architectural and Technological Variability of Rich Internet Applications

The advent of Rich Internet Applications has involved an authentic technological revolution providing Web users with advanced requirements similar to desktop applications. At the same time, RIAs have multiplied the possible architectural and technological alternatives complicating development and increasing risks. The real challenge is to select the right alternatives among the existing RIA variability, thus creating an optimal solution able to satisfy most user requirements. To face this challenge, for the RIA development process, we propose an extended OOH4RIA approach to introduce architectural and technological aspects at the design phase, to propagate these decisions to the rest of concerns and to provide a closer match between the modeled system and the final implementation.