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!

Tags: Flex, Flex & Java

Well, today we finally received the message we were waiting so long for: Flash Builder 4 Beta released (Link)!

First of all to everybody who is wondering about „FLASH“-Builder 4, it’s not a typo, Adobe decided to use the Flash naming instead of continuing with Flex. Currently there are thousands of discussions in the web debating about Flash/Flex naming pros and cons - we simply think this was a stupid decission as the Flex seed just started to grow in the space of Java (enterprise) development, now there is a new seed which again needs to prove in this space and this, again, will take some time.

Flash Builder 4 focuses on three major topics:

• Design in Mind: providing a framework that supports a new degree of expressiveness, easily enabled with tools.
• Developer Productivity: improving compiler performance and adding productivity enhancements to language features like data binding.
• Framework Evolution: taking advantage of new Flash Player capabilities and adding features required by common use-cases.

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Tags: Flex, Flex & Java

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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Tags: Flex & Java, JSF

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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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Tags: Google Finance, Flex & Java, showcase, BlazeDS

Recently Google launched a Flex API which now enables Flex developers to benefit from the great advantages of using geo data. Previously, this has been privileged to JavaScript developers only.

We checked out the API...see what we found out!
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Tags: Google Maps, Flex & Java, showcase, BlazeDS

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...

Tags: Flex & Java, showcase