• Flex and JavaScript Hand in Hand.
• Integration and communication between Flex and JavaScript.
• Flex and Ajax Bridge.
• Simple approaches to achieve most usable UI using Flex and JavaScript.
• Building word processor using flex and javascript.
• Drag and Drop management between Flex Component and JavaScript component.
• Some Examples
• Q and A

This session will bring up light on many good technique and challenges while working with flex and JavaScript.

See you @ 360Flex Atlanta.

Register for 360Flex Atlanta / Europe

James Gosling on JavaFX and Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR January 8, 2008

Kathleen Richards has posted notes of interview with James Gosling (Creator of the java programming language).

Here are some Q&A Discussed with James Gosling which are specifically for Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR.

How will JavaFX be positioned with regard to Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR?
[James] : It certainly competes with both of those. I think we have a much broader and more capable API set. We’ve got a much stronger security story and cross-platform story and a really strong performance story. And I think our deliverable will be really nice.

As organizations think about building rich Internet applications or rich client applications, when should developers look at JavaFX over competing technologies?
[James] :  “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.” We’ve had a platform for years that can build rich Internet applications that are extremely sophisticated.
Our issue hasn’t really been, can you build interesting rich Internet applications? But that it’s difficult. And most of our efforts really are around making a lot of it easier.

In RIA technology space Flash Platform and AJAX are leader and Microsoft (Silverlight) and SUN (JavaFX) are just coming in action.

I am sure that Flash/Flex Platform Community will have some reaction on this.

You can read full article here…

initRIA – The RIA conference at Bangalore (India) December 10, 2007

initRIA is a day long developer conference of Rich Internet Applications enthusiasts organized by the Bangalore Flex User Group. This is the first conference dedicated to Rich Internet Applications in India.

When: 16th December, 8.30 am onwards

Venue:
HoneyWell Technology Solutions (opposite IIM Bangalore)
151/1, Doraisanipalya, Bannerghatta Road,
Bangalore 560076

What topics can be talked about?
The talks can be about any RIA technology AJAX, Flex, AIR, Silverlight, JavaFx or others. We are hoping to get a good mix of talks on different technologies. The nature of the talks has to technical in nature this is not a marketing event so no marketing mumbo jumbo please.

How long can a talk be?
55 minutes max including setup and questions. If you wish you could have talks that are shorter in length.

How many talks?
We are currently looking at 1 track of 8 talks, althought this may change if we get a good number of interesting proposals . Send your topic proposal to organizers@initria.org After we receive your topic a panel of experts will decide if your talk has been selected

Who can speak?
Anyone can submit topic proposals by sending a proposal to organizers@initria.org . After we receive your topic a panel of experts will decide if your talk has been selected. In your proposal please describe in detail the nature of your talk.

Who can attend?
Anyone who is interested in development of Rich Internet Applications. Register here to attend. As this is our first attempt at organizing something like this the number of attendees is capped at 100. Registrations will be on a first come first serve basis. If you register and later feel that you cannot attend please so that someone else can attend.

How can you contribute??
1. Become a speaker: share your knowledge with the community.
2. Spread the word Tell the whole world about it, get experts on all sorts of RIA technologies to speak and attend.
For suggestions please write to organizers@initria.org

Flex 3 on RAD way September 26, 2007

Ted Patrick has posted the new feature for Flex 3 Beta 2 “CURD wizard for ASP .NET, PHP, JAVA and WSDL Introspection”.

Flex 3 Beta 2 will have the feature to generate server side Code for data exchange with ASP .NET, PHP, JAVA. Where you can simply select the database and select the table and you will have options to retrieve, create, update and delete record.

This will have the WSDL integration where you have to type WSDL URL in wizard and it will give you all methods exposed by the web service so you can use it.

CURD Generated code will use XML format for exchanging the data between Flex Application and CURD generated scripts.

On RAD (Rapid Application Development) way:
This feature will be very helpful for creating data driven Rich Internet Application Prototypes in quickly. It will be easy for any entry level developer to understand the Flex by creating small data driven applications.

StartForce.com a new Web operating system August 8, 2007

StartForce a new start-up has developed a web operating system, which looks, likes windows type platform.

StartForce.com UI is developed in AJAX( javascript ).

Explore the StartForce

Flex 3 – Talks are on January 24, 2007

Flex 3 ??????????

Yes, Flex 3 talks are on….

Ted Patrick has posted “Flex 3 - The most important feature!” today morning. According to the post Flex 3 will be targeted on Flash Player 9 which is very smart strategy of adobe to come out with the next release by that time expected flash player 9 penetration will be 90% (currently it is 60% according to Aral Balkan’s FlashForward Macworld Keynote).

Ted Patrick will give a demo on some Flex 3.0 features at the 360Flex keynote.

In my opinion Flash Player 9 must have been developed after putting the lot of thought as Flex 3, 4, 5 releases will be targeting Flash Player 9 and may be currently Flash Player 9 is having all (hidden) capabilities which are targeted for Flex 3, 4, 5.

Well, I am very excited to see more features of Flex 3 but have to wait till 360Flex keynote.

Register to Flex 3 online prerelease program

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Can AJAX Used for making web apps graphical rich? October 4, 2006

Today I came across two contrast posts on zdnet blog. One post says ‘graphical richness is easy with AJAX’ and the other post is contradicts first post by saying “Don’t try to do interactive graphics with Ajax” 

This is again an interesting topic for debate for Ajax vs Flash and Windows Presentation Foundation.

Laszlo Mail: Amazing RIA mail client developed using OpenLaszlo August 25, 2006

Form few days I am stepping into Open Laszlo. I came across good example of RIA email client LaszloMail built using OpenLaszlo.

Here is the more information on LaszloMail given by David Temkin, CTO, Laszlo Systems

“Laszlo Mail was developed using OpenLaszlo an open source platform that enables developers to create applications with the rich user interface capabilities of desktop client software and the instantaneous no-download Web deployment of HTML. These applications run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems from a single XML code base. EarthLink,  Behr Paint, Barclay’s, La Quinta and many others rely on OpenLaszlo to deliver state-of-the-art applications serving millions of users. OpenLaszlo is released under IBM’s Common Public License, and is free for development and deployment.”Cool Na…..Will post some examples of Laszlo soon.

Adobe JamJar “A demonstration application, built on Flex 2” August 19, 2006

Adobe labs have released ‘JamJar’, a demonstration application, built on Flex 2.

JamJar is very interactive, visually attractive, and scalable rich internet application. It provides a graphical, private, persistent, and customizable canvas for small groups to easily exchange digital content in order to:

• Plan events 

• Exchange ideas 

• Manage projects 

• Centralize information 

• Share files and images 

Test drive JamJar by creating spaces and inviting participants to interact in your space.