How can XIOS applications be competitive to traditional desktop applications that are deployed with for instance Flex, WPF, and built on established client server protocols (e.g. WS.*, JSON, XML)?
XIOS uses technologies such as WS.*, XML and JSON extensively. XIOS also enables applications to be developed extremely rapidly using visual orchestration in the graphical IDE (XIDE/3), or editing XML files directly. Since XIOS is built using AJAX technologies, it’s superior to Flash or WPF based applications in regards to extensibility by third party developers or integration with existing code libraries. Another major difference is that technologies like Flash RIAs and WPF are mainly designed for enterprise Intranets, with user bases typically in the thousands. Such applications lack the scalability of XIOS that can support millions of concurrent users.