My last post ended up sparking off an interesting discussion with Nick Fessel about the architecture for rich internet apps. We got onto the topic of Flash and its potential in a web-services environment.

Well anyhow, Nick pointed out some reallly interesting links to both Flash and Ajax apps which you can go back and look at but which I won't reproduce here to make sure you do.

Nick - I had heard of Laszlo before but never knew what they did. One thing I do know is that you can still produce their type of applications (albeit perhaps without their backend) using standalone Flash. I know it's not cheap to buy MM Flash but you don't actually need all the rest of the shenanigans. The Rico suite was very nice, it reminded me an awful lot of the scriptalicious libraries - have you come across them?

So what do other people think? Finally and thankfully it seems that rich internet apps are going to take off, what do you see becocming the dominant architectures?