Java Flex Book - urgent notice
Unfortunately the current DVD version within the book „Professionelle Rich Client Lösungen mit Flex & Java“ contains a packaging error: all sub folders contain the Linux compression extension .gz; in order to import a project you have to step through all subfolders and extract each file which is clumsy work.
We prepared two new bundles which do not contain this error, the corrected bundles (mirror DVD 1:1) can be downloaded here, simply click on of the items below:
Full Windows Bundle (1:1 DVD), 1.3GB
Windows Eclipse Projects only, 85MB
Full Mac Bundle (1:1 DVD), 1.3GB
Mac Eclipse Projects only, 85MB
We apologize for this issue and kindly ask you to use the bundles above, the DVD bundles work as well but are kind of „deprecated“!
Best regards, Florian Müller!
Java-Flex book by richability released!
We proudly present: Professional Rich Client solutions with Flex & Java!
A long road has come to an end...! Today we finally managed to release the book „Professionelle Rich Client Lösungen mit Flex & Java“ (currently available only in German language - English will follow soon...);
the book is kind of allround guide giving beginners a good Flex/Java ramp up, advanced Flex/Java engineers can benefit from the book as well, since couple of advanced topics (Flex - Java - JPA, Spring, Multilanguage Management, Messaging etc.) are treated as well.
The book contains a fully blown ready to rund Eclipse/Flex environment and ships with a lot of examples enabling the reader rather to learn Flex than reading about Flex only. The book covers the following topics:
- Flex - Java - BlazeDS background knowledge
- Flex Java Setup
- Basic Flex examples
- Connecting Flex and Java
- Accessing a MySQL database from Felx via Java/JPA (Hibernate)
- Validations
- Messaging
- Spring Integration
- Web Service access
- AIR
- Testing
- 30 frequent Flex/Java questions - and corresponding answers!
Publishing house is Addison Wesley, the book can be ordered via Amazon: Link
I would like to thank everybody involved into this project - and of course I’m looking forward to feedback from our first readers!
Have fun reading the book, Florian!
Flex & JSF
Some weeks ago Exadel announced an extension called Fiji to JavaServer Faces to fully encapsulate Flex. As we like evaluating technologies by using them we created a little demo which uses a JSF „backend“ and a Flex user interface. Currently we are in progress of creating a nice little tutorial which enables you to create your own JSF/Flex application within minutes, the tutorial will be released next week.
Ok, let’s get back to our evaluation. First of all there are two major „tracks“ you can follow using Fiji, one is to head for Flex charting solutions which simply can be placed into your application with some lines lines of jsp Code. The following Fiji tag for example will generate the chart displayed below, the chart on the right is just another example.
<fiji:stackedColumnChart id="stackedColumnChart" value="#{SCBeanSimple.data}"
title="Simple Stacked Column Chart" subtitle="Display Resolution Statistics" captionX="Years" captionY="Percent" legendCaption="Resolution"
barColors="#{SCBeanSimple.colors}" width="400" height="400"
rulersValuesHighlight="none">
<fiji:chartData type="name" value="#{SCBeanSimple.names}" />
fiji:stackedColumnChart>
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Google Stock Trader
Currently stock trading is pretty hard, there is no day without painful losses and it is really unpredictable where the stocks might go the next few weeks. But there is a high interest in stock trading at the moment as everybody wants to know what is going on with his stocks and whether he sould sell or keep them. In order to know when best selling point has come it is important to be ahead - ahead of other traders who sell their stocks based on 20 minute delayed values. Currently 20 minutes might include a total stock rise or a total stock fall - if the trader does not know he has no chance in the current shark pool...we created a nice application for you to be ahead of all the other sharks! And of course we did so based on a Rich Client technology...
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Flex & Java - good friends...
Unfortunately one of the first things people keep thinking about when hearing about Flex is Flash; and when thinking about Flash, people usually have these fancy animation stuff in their mind which is used as intro for gaming pages and other freaky web content...
But this chain of thoughts is completely outdated...Read full post...