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 we came across an Ajax framework called „zk“; the most interesting point about this framework is the promise that developers would not have to deal with JavaScript when using zk. So we started a little evaluation and we were really impressed about this framework, that's the reason we decided to share the results of our development here in the infospace. Below you will find our Drag & Shop application, a web shop demo based on zk and some simple Java services. Source is avaliable below as well...Read full post...

Tags: zk, showcase

We created some Java backend services and thought it would be pretty cool to put different frontend technologies on top of these services. On the one hand we did so in order to gather experience with the CaptainCasa framework, on the other hand we were curious to see an applet based frontend in direct comparison with a Flex frontend. This article is not "Applet versus Flex" it is much more about having one application with two different frontends - in order to discover the advantages of both frontend technologies...Read full post...

Tags: Applet or Flex, showcase

Great news for Flex developers (and Flex consumers!) - not just from a technical point of view, as this anouncement contains a symbolic character, as well:

Google and Yahoo! anounced SWF searchability!

This means that a search executed in Google now should be able to include contents of Flex RIAs, even dynamic content!

We prepared a little experiment...let’s see whether searching for Flex Button labels works!Read full post...

Tags: Rich Client, showcase

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

„Swing and JSF...?“ that's usually the first thing people keep asking when reading about the CaptainCasa Enterprise Client Technology. But the idea behind makes sense: JSF is the server server side standard framework for serving client side user interfaces. Typically used for creating HTML pages, it is now used to control a generic, Java Swing based client. CaptainCasa does not introduce a new proprietary server side processing, but bases on the same one (JSF) that you build web applications on.

And Swing? Well first of all, the application developer is not in direct contact with Swing at all when using CaptainCasa. The client is a generic one, i.e. it receives an XML layout specification from the server and sends back events. All is done through http protocol, imagine the client to be a browser on its own. Swing is a candidate which has been around for a while - much longer than "new technologies" such as Ajax & Co; I know several companies running mission critical applications using Swing User Interfaces since couple of years. Main problems typically are: (1) Swing development is not too simple and (2) Swing UIs look a bit old fashionned. Both seem to be overcome with CaptainCasa: as already said, the layout is specified in XML, there is no direct contact with Swing (exception: you want to add a new component on your own) - and: the rendering result is looking very nice! Have a look into the component demos: http://www.captaincasa.com/demozone.html. ...is this really Swing? - Yes, it is!Read full post...

Tags: Applet, showcase

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