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!
Flash Builder 4 Beta released!
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.
Flex/JSF tutorial added
Just a quick update: we have added a Flex/JSF tutorial for beginners into our tutorial section. So anybody looking for a Flex/JSF ramp up, this is a good starting point...