Flex On Ruby on Rails

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00:00 EST

With the release of Flex 2, Adobe has introduced a tool that makes building rich user interfaces for the Web easier than ever; of course, as anyone remotely plugged in to the Web development community knows, Ruby on Rails has made creating database-driven Web applications brain dead simple. This article discusses a technology that marries Flex with RoR applications by providing a means of automating the communication between the client and server. The technology is 'WebORB for Rails,' a free and open source (GPL) server made available by Midnight Coders (www.themidnightcoders.com).

Was the Universal Service Registry a Dream?

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

It is sometimes beneficial to stop what you're doing, take a look around, and see where you've come from and where you are going. This regrouping is taking place right now across the software industry and is focused on the problem space of Web service description, discovery, and integration. At a high level, this article briefly discusses the progress made to date at solving the problem, describes the benefits and shortcomings of current technology, and presents a vision of the possible future of Web services infrastructure.

Articles by Harris Reynolds

Flex On Ruby on Rails

Was the Universal Service Registry a Dream?