After the advent of SDKs for Adobe AIR & Microsoft Silverlight and the considerable amount of market share they already have, Sun Microsystems has finally come up with their SDK preview for JavaFX.
If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff -- richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs -- it really falls short.
initRIA is the first of its kind Rich Internet Applications developer conference in India. It aims at providing a platform for RIA enthusiasts in India to interact and learn.