Curl Showcases Curl Nitro Through New Sample Application

Business Wire,  June 16, 2008  

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Timeline viewer showcases the Curl Nitro platform's online and offline abilities

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- As part of its effort to build and educate its developer community, Curl([R]), Inc. today made available an example of a Curl Nitro "fit client" application: a timeline viewer. The timeline viewer showcases the ability of applications built on the Curl language to load sizeable data sets as well as provide a rich, interactive user interface for exploring them. Capabilities like these are required for many enterprise-class data visualization applications.

The sample timeline viewer, which can run online or offline, is an example of the enhanced desktop RIA capabilities offered by Curl Nitro, an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. Curl Nitro simplifies the process of installing and managing Curl applications accessed via a browser as well as directly from the desktop. It is the only platform for both traditional RIA and Desktop RIA that provides enterprise-level security, high performance and support for large data sets.

"The Curl capabilities demonstrated by this program are useful in many interactive data visualization applications," said Bert Halstead, vice president and chief architect, Curl. "In business and science, there are many instances of time-based data including server logs and transaction histories. Many data sets are provided as XML files similar to the timeline files used by this viewer. This application illustrates how Curl can be used not only to display a data set, but to present that data set in a way that serves as a starting point for exploring other, related resources and information."

The timeline viewer, able to view historical timeline data, was inspired by a browser-based, AJAX timeline viewer born out of the Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments (SIMILE) project at MIT. The same XML timeline files that were created in association with that project drive this Curl viewer. For instructions on how the timeline viewer works as well as how to download the application, visit the Widgets/Gadgets/Curlets section of Curl Developer Center. Continuing the commitment to open source, Curl has made all the source files used to build this application available, allowing users to create their own variations of the timeline viewer.

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About Curl, Inc.

Curl provides a Rich Internet Application platform for building and deploying Web-based applications that demand complex, highly interactive interfaces previously only possible as client-server applications. Using Curl, developers can implement a new class of complex, business-critical, Web-based applications that cannot easily be developed with Ajax or other smart client technologies. Curl allows corporations with legacy client-server applications to move to Web-based delivery, increasing reach and reducing cost. Founded in 1998, Curl is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumisho Computer Systems. Curl has over 300 customers and 40 partners world-wide. For more information visit http://www.curl.com.

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