Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, discusses current web trends. I actually like his cautious view of RIAs (although it conflicts with Sun’s current JavaFX direction).  Some highlights of the interview:

• WS* is already legacy.
• WS* will be more and more replaced with RESTful services
• RIAs are overrated, user like simple interfaces (I totally agree on this)
• JavaScript/AJAX are the new old stars of the web, especially with the new browser coming out
• MultiCore isn’t much of an issue (yet) for Web Development
• HTTP doesn’t need an overhaul
• He isn’t sure in which direction Cloud Computing is going.

The 30-minutes interview is available on InfoQ.

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