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Ric Smith

Ric Smith
Director of Business and Product Strategy, Kaazing Corp.

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Ric Smith is responsible for Kaazing’s business and product strategy. Prior to joining Kaazing, Ric Smith was Principal Product Manager for Oracle Application Development Tools. In his role as Principal Product Manager he was responsible for the evangelism and product direction of Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client as well as Oracle’s AJAX and Java EE Web Tier offerings.

Prior to joining the application server team, Ric Smith worked for Oracle’s consulting business as a Principal Consultant, specializing in Java EE and AJAX development. In addition, Ric is a frequent speaker at Oracle events and has written articles featured in industry publications such as Java Developer’s Journal and AJAX World Magazine.

He was also a representative to the OpenAjax Alliance and a graduate of the University of Arizona.

Sessions

2:25pm Friday, 09/19/2008
Comet: Reversing the Web with Ajax 2.0
Topic: Development
Location: 1A08 & 10
Ric Smith (Kaazing Corp.), Jonas Jacobi (Kaazing)
If you are not familiar with "Comet programming," then now is the time to become acquainted with Ajax's second coming. With this revolutionary development technique, the tried and true “click” will no longer drive content deliver in your applications, instead content will be both server and user initiated, enabling a push-pull model for communication, better known as event driven development. Read more.