Whether you build your RIA using Flex, AJAX, ... You'll have to invoke remote services to load data into your client or send CRUD statements to your backend. This type of client side data management is the challenge for RIA developers. In this technical session we will explain how a J2EE framework can come to the rescue. We will demonstrate how this leverages your existing J2EE back-end, integrates EJB 3.0 and persists data between the client and the application server in a failover environment.
Marc Meewis has a database development background of more than 15 years. Early 2007 he joined Adobe and became addicted to Flex and AIR, still convinced that back end integration is as important as sexy user interfaces. Prior to that Marc was technology sales consultant at Oracle Belgium.
Building better RIAs faster with JSF— In this session you'll learn how-to build RIA UI's fast and easy, develop reusable JSF flows, integrate method calls and router decisions in JSF flows, build advanced JSF templates, work with additional memory scopes and declarativly build and reuse your own JSF components. We'll demo the above using Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client components, a set of over 150 standard JSF components with built-in Ajax support, as well as the ADF TaskFlow - an extension to the JSF controller.
Chet Haase and James Ward Devoxx Interview— JavaPosse.com interview with Chet Haase and James Ward from Adobe taken at Devoxx'08. This informal interview talks about the new features of Gumbo, what Adobe announced at the Devoxx conference and what similarities Flex and Java have from a development point of view.
The Future Of Rich Internet Applications— See Adobe's vision of the future of RIAs. We'll discuss the importance of high-quality design and the tight communication required between designers and developers to build truly compelling applications, including how to make the tools that each prefer interoperate.
Building Business Critical Rich Internet Applications with Abobe Flex— This session will focus on parallels between Flex and Java development concerning Continuous Integration and best practices. Jan will talk about automated builds with ANT, testing with FlexUnit and choice of architectural frameworks
The Publishing Client— The Parleys.com Publisher client will allow space owners to publish their own talks (audio and video presentations including demo) to a given space. This presentation gives an introduction to the new publishing client. Hopefully you'll enjoy this as much as we have