<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from FLEX DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from FLEX DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>FLEX DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 17:17:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from FLEX DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/62/fdj-mag-logo-145.jpg</url><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Adobe Flash Player 10 Public Beta Now on Adobe Labs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/567908.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/567908.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/567908_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 beta as a free download from Adobe Labs. Adobe Flash Player 10 beta, code named 'Astro', builds on the capabilities of the world's most ubiquitous application runtime with new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, extensible rich text layout, and GPU hardware acceleration.]]></description></item><item><title>Flex 4: My Wish List</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/561359.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/561359.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/561359_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Flex 2 was released in the Summer of 2006 and it was a mini-revolution in the RIA space. Almost nobody knew about Flex 1.5, but now almost everyone has at least heard about this software. Flex 3 was released in early 2008. It has a number of useful new features, but it was not a major release. In my opinion, a more modest 2.5 would suffice. We are expecting more now. Flex 4 will come out to the world next year and while the Flex team has announced a number of very interesting syntax improvements, I'd love to see more fundamental improvements in this great RIA tool.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Adobe Makes Flash &amp; AIR Free for Mobile Widgets</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/558037.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/558037.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 20:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/558037_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A bunch of the boys have joined Adobe in forming the Open Screen Project to drive a consistent rich Internet experience across TVs, PCs, mobile devices and consumer electronics regardless of operating system. They've been persuaded that the way to squeeze the World Wide Web into those little bitty phones and newfangled MID things - and make it look like a PC - is to enable, maintain and optimize a consistent runtime environment using Adobe's Flash Player and later on Adobe AIR.]]></description></item><item><title>Additions to My Computer Book Shelf</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/558040.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/558040.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/558040_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Many young programmers don't read books anymore.  They google. They argue, 'When I need to find a solution it's just a click away. Why bother purchasing books that are outdated by the time of printing?  Real programmers learn by doing - trial and errors'. I do not agree with this.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe and Industry Leaders Establish Open Screen Project</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/557429.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/557429.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/557429_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Today, Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders. The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Cooking CRUD with Flex and BlazeDS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/552632.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/552632.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/552632_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In today's cooking class you'll add to your cookbook  a delicious recipe. It's quick and won't cost you a dime.  I'm sure you've been in one of these situations when you have unexpected guests arriving in 20 minutes and need to make a good impression.  Let's create an application that will auto-generate a Flex-Tomcat-BlazeDS-DB2 application.]]></description></item><item><title>Responding to the &quot;Adobe Flex Shortcomings&quot; Java Blog</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/538567.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/538567.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/538567_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Vectors supporting types are the part of next release - and are billed more of performance/coding help then language enhancement. Most of the Java 5 constructs are not really applicable to ActionScript 3 - for fair comparison you need to use Java 7/8 with dynamic scripting language support - and then the way you speak that language changes. Compare how enum support evolved in Java over the years - starting with patterns - and you would think of language as of evolving environment. I was coming to Java in '97 from C++ and I thought of it as a very poor language. 10 years made it almost tolerable - but I still miss ability to redefine operators - does it really matter to anyone who never did it in first place?]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/538269.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/538269.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/538269_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of the whole magilla now. Gary Kovacs, VP of product management and marketing for the mobile and devices business, will be general manager of the unit, reporting to Lynch, replacing Al Ramadan, who is leaving.]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Apple Should Buy Adobe,&quot; Cringeley Thinks &amp;ndash; And He Explains Why</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/214144.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/214144.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/214144_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Robert X. Cringely thinks Apple should buy Adobe. In an article published on the National Public Radio website discussing Apple's future, he lays out some goals for Apple on its quest to desktop dominance: an important link in this chain, according to Cringeley, is the aquisition by Apple of Adobe Systems.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Erects Photoshop on the Cloud</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/529263.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/529263.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/529263_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe, which is not exactly unfamiliar with the concept of the free giveaway, has put out a public beta of a simple version of its popular Photoshop photo-editing software for free over the web. Think of it as an answer to Google's Picasa. It's called PhotoShop Express and Adobe says it'll add features over time, evidently in response to the feedback it gets from the beta.]]></description></item><item><title>New Major Release of Flex Is Due This Summer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/531366.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/531366.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/531366_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This caught me by surprise. Isn't it a bit too soon? One of the most interesting features of this Flex release is configurable modules. This new release also features lots of new controls. I like the grooved panels. The Web site to promote the new Flex is done in Flex too (finally!).]]></description></item><item><title>The Heck With What Steve Jobs Thinks: Adobe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/523803.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/523803.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/523803_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Apple CEO Steve Jobs may think Flash is junk, but Adobe says it's creating a media player for the iPhone anyway using the software tools Apple just released for third-party use. Once built, Adobe intends to distribute the thing through Apple's iTunes store, according to what Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Wall Street when Adobe released its quarterly results.]]></description></item><item><title>Flex on Wall Street</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/524408.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/524408.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/524408_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[If you are evaluating technologies for your next rich Internet financial application, do not miss this one day event 'Flex on Wall Street' that will take place in New York City on April 18, 2008.]]></description></item><item><title>Communigate delivers Pronto!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/524328.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/524328.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/524328_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-class Rich Media Internet Communications, today announced the availability of Pronto! 2.0, the latest version of its powerful, yet lightweight Unified Communications user interface framework built with Adobe® Flex® 3, deployed in the browser with Adobe Flash® Player and to the desktop with Adobe® AIR.]]></description></item><item><title>Application Built in Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/522142.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/522142.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/522142_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Verb Exchange announced a deal with interface design specialist, Nitobi, to develop the desktop and web interfaces for Tabrio, a new way to stay in touch with anyone, anywhere. Verb Exchange and Nitobi will work together to enhance the Tabrio user experience, making Tabrio feature-rich.]]></description></item><item><title>Why Adobe AIR Is Not Google Gears, Prism, JavaFX or Silverlight</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/514448.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/514448.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/514448_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe's release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point. And that's understandable, given that we are tumbling into the next generation of everything all at once right now - SaaS and SOA, Web 2.0, Blu-ray, cellular streaming, and on and on - like a tornado crossing a junkyard. It's one of those times when it's hard to keep things straight.]]></description></item><item><title>Notes from Adobe conference for educators</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/512025.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/512025.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/512025_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[These are the notes from Adobe Education Designer and Developer Conference  that Adobe put together for people who are teaching Adobe software at various universities around the country.]]></description></item><item><title>Flex vs. AJAX: Stop The Madness!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/508990.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/508990.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/508990_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Flex or AJAX? Which one is better? Which one will 'win' in the RIA space? I am tired of this argument. I'm tired of seeing blog posts keeping this debate alive. It's a non-issue, really. I think that people make it an issue when they try, or investigate, each technology and find one easier than the other then run with that technology's banner. Flex and AJAX can, should, and do exist in the same space. Their goal is the same: A rich UI and breaking the old and busted request-response model with the new hotness of the event-driven model. Both technologies can achieve the same goal, but via different paths.]]></description></item><item><title>ILOG Ships Graphical Visualization Tool for Flex</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505976.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505976.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505976_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ILOG. a member of the OpenAjax Alliance, announced that its graphical visualization offering for Adobe Flex, ILOG Elixir, is shipping with feature and sales channel enhancements. ILOG Elixir, available now, was warmly received by the Adobe Flex community during its Beta period.]]></description></item><item><title>RIA Development Update: Flex 3, Air 1.0 and BlazeDS Released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505860.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505860.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505860_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Eighteen months ago Flex 2 was released,  which literally changed the way people think of rich Internet applications. Since then lots of things have happened in the Flex community. In 2007 Adobe announced that Flex will go open source, and now it has happened. All ActionScript 3 and Java code including Flex compilers and debugger (FDB) are going open source. And let?s not forget about the number of other open source products released by Adobe during the same period of time.]]></description></item><item><title>How to Create a Multi User Flex Application Using JMS</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505476.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505476.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505476_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In order to create a multi user Flex application, you can take advantage of one of the features of LiveCycle Data Services: the Messaging Services. The Messaging Services allows you to connect your Flex application to a message destination and send/receive messages to it from other clients.  You use the JMS adapter to subscribe to JMS queues configured on an implementation of the Java Message Service. The Java Message Service (JMS) API is a Java Message Oriented Middleware  API for sending messages between two or more clients.]]></description></item><item><title>Flex Best Practices: DTO is the Horseshoe of your Flex Application</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505875.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505875.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505875_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[If I could pass just one Flex advice that would be: Use Data Transfer Objects. Use custom Data Transfer Objects to pass data between server and Flash tiers of your Flex application. Do not use XML. Yes, I know that XML cool.  Do not use raw objects.]]></description></item><item><title>AOL, eBay, NASDAQ, New York Times, Deutsche Bank, Nick.com, Sharp Take To the AIR</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505935.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505935.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/505935_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Question: What do AOL, eBay, NASDAQ, The New York Times Company, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group's Nick.com, Sharp Corporation and others have in common? The answer is that've all launched pioneering Rich Internet Applications deployed on Adobe AIR, to coincide with the official release today of AIR 1.0.]]></description></item><item><title>Should You Choose AJAX or Adobe?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/469472.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/469472.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/469472_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AJAXWorld in 2007 was sponsored by the world's leading rich web technology providers including: 3Tera, Addison-Wesley, Adobe, Apress, Backbase, Bindows, Conference Guru, Cynergy Systems, Dynamic Toolbar, Extension Media, Farata Systems, Flash Goddess, FrogLogic, GoingToMeet.com, Google, Helmi Technologies, IBM, ICEsoft, ILOG, IT Mill, Ittoolbox, JackBe, JetBrains, Kaazing, Krugle, Laszlo Systems, Lightstreamer, Manning Publications, Methods & Tools, Microsoft, Nexaweb, OpenSpot, OpSource, Oracle, Parasoft, Passport Corporation, PushToTest, Quasar Technologies, Rearden Commerce, Servoy, SmartClient / Isomorphic Software, SnapLogic, Sun Microsystems, TechTracker Media, Tele Atlas, The Thomson Corporation, ThinWire, TIBCO Software, TileStack, Universal Mind, Vertex Logic, Web Spiders, and Webtide.]]></description></item><item><title>Watching Java presentations with AJAX, Flex, AIR and JavaFX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/502933.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/502933.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/502933_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Parleys.com is a great Web site with lots of recoded videos of technical presentations on a wide variety of Java-related topics.  While the original version of Parleys has been created in AJAX, more advanced Flex and AIR versions are now available too. I had a chance to chat with a man behind this project.]]></description></item><item><title>Car Manufacturers Go with Adobe Flex RIA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/501617.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/501617.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/501617_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[OK, car manufactures go Flex. Will they lose or gain customers because of that?  Car manufacturers want to have fancy consumer sites. It's a world of RIA, and having interactive Web sites should bring more people to car dealerships. But poorly performing Web site can turn into lost revenues.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Flex Rules, Everything Else Drools</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/499659.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/499659.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/499659_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The article is basically 'Flex rules, everything else drools'. It goes on and on about the good things about Flex, while giving only cursory coverage of Flex drawbacks. Meanwhile, it's just the opposite regarding the other technologies, going on and on about drawbacks, and giving only cursory coverage of advantages. Case in point, Yakov says that Java Swing development is 'hugely expensive'. Nonsense. First, NetBeans is completely free, and NetBeans has the wonderful Matisse GUI designer, making the development of great looking Swing UIs a snap. Second, there is JavaFX, which is an XML based declarative scripting language that is used to quickly build rich Swing UIs super easy, and is very similar to MXML/Action Script, as is featured in Yakov's beloved Flex. Third, there is a plethora of third party libraries and controls in the Swing ecosystem, that further extends Swing capabilities, and makes Swing development easier.]]></description></item><item><title>Building Rich User Interfaces in Dreamweaver</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/483491.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/483491.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/483491_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools - including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components - make it easy to build rich user interfaces in AJAX with no JavaScript coding. Andre Charland will demonstrate how to install, set up and configure extensions to Dreamweaver, and will use them to build simple, rich interface AJAX apps.]]></description></item><item><title>Flex Is All About Event-Driven Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/486677.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/486677.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/486677_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of articles that will cover best practices of Flex development using the code of the soon-to-be-released open source class library theriabook. These components were developed by Flex and Java architects from Farata Systems. Over the past couple of years we've been successfully using various coding techniques and custom components that turned the application development in Flex into a RAD project.]]></description></item><item><title>Discovery Channel and EffectiveUI Launch Earth Live</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/498598.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/498598.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/498598_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Earth Live is  an application that EffectiveUI has created in collaboration with Discovery channel. The application helps people to learn the world by engaging them with a more effective UI, so complex information such as climate change can be digestible by a regular person.   The application uses digital imagery so the user can interactively create a climate picture of the planet Earth. The UI offers several layers, and you can load the content of the layer (i.e. rain) onto the 3D image of the globe.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Names CTO</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/498483.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/498483.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/498483_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe has named Kevin Lynch, a guy from the Macromedia side of the house, CTO, a chair last warmed by John Warnock. Lynch was previously chief software architect and senior VP of the company's platform business. His attention is now supposed to focus on AIR, Flex and Flash Player and his posting is supposed to mark the importance of rich Internet applications to Adobe, which acquired Macromedia in 2005. He holds three patents with others pending.]]></description></item><item><title>An Alternative To Flex Builder Is Coming: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/497611.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/497611.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/497611_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One of the best Java IDEs on the market may become a valid Flex Builder alternative later this year. I can make a wild guess that I'll be seriously considering switching to IntelliJIDEA 8.0 by the end of 2008 unless Adobe will make some major investments in Flex Builder.]]></description></item><item><title>Flex Bugs Déjà Vu; Memories of Java&apos;s Bug Parade</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/497470.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/497470.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/497470_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Flex is an open source product, which means that you can fix the bugs on your own. This may fork out the product, but that's another story altogether. On the other hand, developers can vote for the bugs so the Flex team can fix them. I remain cautiously optimistic that Flex team will be more responsive than their Java colleagues. Time will tell.]]></description></item><item><title>Three RIA Platforms Compared: Adobe Flex, Google Web Toolkit, and OpenLaszlo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/489336.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/489336.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/489336_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The defining characteristic of any RIA is that it has a stateful client that is (or should be) platform and browser independent. Thin-client web applications grew from the need to provide applications with more reach, easy access to server side data, and to alleviate the pain of having to install and configure thick client software. Thin-client web applications remain a great way to accomplish these goals. However, with the advent of these new RIA platforms, developers now have all the reach of a traditional thin-client web application with many of the useful characteristics of thick-client applications, such as the ability to maintain state on the client.]]></description></item><item><title>Where To Find Senior Flex Developers?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/494861.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/494861.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/494861_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Adobe Flex enterprise market picks up really fast, and it's obvious that the need for Flex developers will only get bigger and bigger. The question is what kind of Flex developers are in huge demand.  I'll share with you the experience of our company, but first, let's look at the diagram from the popular job aggregator.]]></description></item><item><title>Flex 3, AIR, BlazeDS: Less Than One Moon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/494374.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/494374.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/494374_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Unless your Flex 2 project has to go to production this month, switch to Flex 3. Now. Flex 3 final Beta days are almost over and it brings you lots of goodies. If you are still thinking of using AJAX or JSF for your data intensive business application, just stop it, will you! Just take care of your business with Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS.]]></description></item><item><title>Does Adobe&apos;s Promotion of Flex Put Flash Programmers at a Disadvantage?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/492741.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/492741.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/492741_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I ran into an interesting blog written by a Flash programmer who feels that Adobe's promotion of Flex puts him and other Flash programmers at a disadvantage. And he knows how to resist!]]></description></item><item><title>RIA Development on the Microsoft Stack Using Flex</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490418.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490418.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490418_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ASP.NET AJAX is a natural candidate for RIA development under the .NET framework. However, there are other complementary or even alternative technologies that are worth your consideration. This session will start with a brief market overview and outline the pros and cons of some of the emerging and established frameworks, particularly JavaFX, Silverlight, and Flex. We will then dive into hands-on labs for delivering applications using Flex and .NET. You'll see specific implementations utilizing web services, FlourineFX (open source Flash remoting) and WebORB (commercial Flash remoting). We will also discuss delivering desktop applications using Adobe AIR, streaming video over the web, and engaging your audience with audio/video chat. Basically all the must-have features of today's Rich Internet Applications.]]></description></item><item><title>How Do You Pick the Right Technology for Enterprise Rich Internet Applications?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490368.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490368.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490368_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET or experiment with such newcomers as AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, or JavaFX. While the Internet brings a lot of noise where 'it's cool' is the most popular definition, this presentation is an overview of what's out there on the enterprise RIA market. We'll talk about the pros and cons of using various techniques and technologies for the development of the front end for complex distributed systems.]]></description></item><item><title>RIA Tookits, Frameworks and IDEs: How Do You Really Choose the Right One?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490417.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490417.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/490417_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This session will address issues to consider when selecting an AJAX toolkit and the most effective IDE for the implementation. It will identify the 30-40 UI components most commonly used in business and mission critical software applications that can be used as a benchmark for evaluating various toolkits, then explore the top evaluation criteria including component behaviors, customization, flexibility, frameworks, licensing and documentation. Attendess will be provided with a comparison survey for the 6-8 most widely used AJAX UI component libraries. Further discussion will address how to select the appropriate IDE once a commitment has been made to a AJAX UI toolkit.]]></description></item><item><title>Rich Semantic Internet Applications with Flex</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/485947.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/485947.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/485947_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) run inside web browsers and provide a much more dynamic user experience than conventional web pages. While traditional HTML-based pages require a full reload of the page when the user clicks on a link, many modern web pages only reload parts of the page and provide animations to dynamically navigate through an information space. There are several platforms to implement such dynamic web pages, for example AJAX, Flash, Java FX, Microsoft Silverlight, OpenLaszlo, XUL.]]></description></item><item><title>How to Staff Your Adobe Flex RIA Project Team</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/484610.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/484610.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/484610_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The main concern of any project manager is if there are enough people in the pool of Flex developers to staff the project. Yes, there is a pool of Flex developers, but let's look at the creature called 'Flex Developer' under the microscope. If you are considering adding Flex to your set of skills, it?s still early in the game and you can join the fast growing Flex community. Decide which group of the Flex developers looks most appealing to you. Set a goal and go for it. Be what you can be.]]></description></item><item><title>JavaFX Is A Too Late Response from Sun for Rich Internet Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/484240.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/484240.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/484240_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[JavaFX is a little-too-late response from Sun to the rapidly growing community of the languages, tools and techniques for development of the Rich Internet Applications. Fine, let's give JavaFX some time, it's still too young. But what can you expect from a scripting language built on top of Swing libraries? This is already outdated...even before its own release. I hope to see some real competitive sample applications showing the power of JavaFX rather than declarations that it's a Flash or Silverlight killer. This is not even funny.]]></description></item><item><title>Can You Use Flex Communication Protocols for Mission-Critical Trading Applications?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/481160.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/481160.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/481160_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Redmond Developer News has published an interview with Dr. James Gosling, creator of the Java language, where among other things, he talks about JavaFX and competing technologies. And he made a comment I can't agree with. Here it is: '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.']]></description></item><item><title>Flash Player Will Remain the Best Deployment Platform for RIAs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/480060.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/480060.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/480060_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In our annual round-up of technology predictions, Yakov Fain - editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's Flex Developer's Journal - says 'Flash Player will remain the best deployment platform for rich Internet applications. While Microsoft is trying to come up with a competitive delivering platform for RIA, it?s not going to happen in 2008. Silverlight 1.0 is a good start, the next version (1.1) will be even better, but it?ll take time to release a product that can do more than streaming multimedia.']]></description></item><item><title>Time Magazine&apos;s 50 Best Web Sites (Time Uses Flex?)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/480408.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/480408.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/480408_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Time Magazine has published their version of the 50 best Web sites of 2007. Check it out. You may or may not agree with their ranking, but I'm sure you'll find some interesting sites there that you did not know about. It's good to see that Time has started using Adobe Flex too.]]></description></item><item><title>Do We Need Third-Party Flex Frameworks?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/479472.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/479472.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/479472_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This started as a Skype chat room conversation between my colleague Anatole Tartakovsky and myself, and I thought that it would be a good idea to invite more Flex developers to join this discussion. Having said this, I'd like to make it clear that over my career, I've been developing frameworks myself and truly respect people who are capable of creating frameworks, and Anatole has huge experience in this area as well. Here we're just questioning the need to create frameworks not for a general-purpose language like Java, but for a domain-specific framework like Flex.]]></description></item><item><title>How Do You Deploy Patches in Your Rich Internet Application?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/479228.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/479228.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/479228_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In Java world, the solution to this issue is pretty simple. A typical Java application consists of a number of .jar files (think libraries or swc) and there is a concept of a class path. If a program needs to use a class MyGreatCreation, the Java class loader tries to find it based on the classes or jars listed in the classpath. If there is more than one version of this class in the path, the class loader will grab the first one. This greatly simplifies deploying any patches in Java production applications. Just make changes to your class and place it in the jar that is listed first in the classpath. Then deploy just this jar in production, and the loader will be happy to pick up the brand new version of MyGreatCreation.]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Hits Record Revenues</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/478885.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/478885.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/478885_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million. It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in its enterprise business. Creative Suite 3, which started coming out in April, includes upgrades to Photoshop, Illustrator and software acquired with Macromedia like Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. On a non-GAAP basis Adobe earned 49 cents in Q4, a penny more than Wall Street expected.]]></description></item><item><title>Mouse Wheel Support in Flex</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://flex.sys-con.com/read/478850.htm</guid><link>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/478850.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://flex.sys-con.com/read/478850_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Just two of the text fields on your Flex window have to support the mouse wheel.  The user turns the wheel, the numeric field in these fields is incremented or decremented. Let's do it.]]></description></item></channel></rss>