At Adobe's website you can read the following about Flex 2.0: 'Adobe Flex 2 software is a rich Internet application framework based on Adobe Flash that will enable you to productively create beautiful, scalable applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform. It includes a powerful, Eclipse based development tool, an extensive visual component library, and high-performance data services enabling you to meet your applications' most demanding needs.' We will share our experiences and best practices on How to build Rich Internet Applications (RIA's) based upon Flex2.0 within a Spring and Hibernate enabled J2EE architecture.
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of it's frameworks beginning in the late 90's. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front ends for Java based back ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.
Joachim Maes, is senior J2EE architect at Xplore. Joachim Maes is a senior Java consultant at Xplore n.v. His daytime focus is on J2EE and J2ME (BlackBerry) application architecture, with a particular affinity for efficient, no-nonsense user interface design. He is passionate about the promise of Rich Internet Applications that reach from browser to desktop to mobile devices. He is working with Java since 1998 and has a strong interest in mobile computing since 2000.
Thinking in Flex— This JavaPolis 2007 keynote by Bruce Eckel, James Ward and Christoph Rooms gives you a very practical demonstration on how Flex can be used especially in combination with server-side data services. Enjoy this RIA demo!
Enterprise RIA with Flex and Java— 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.
Ajax with Google Web Toolkit— An introduction to writing applications using the Google Web Toolkit, and an update on recent improvements to GWT. This session will cover GWT basics: Java to JavaScript compilation, JavaScript Native Interface usage, the GWT component model, and GWT-RPC for communication to a server. This will be a beginner level technical presentation.
blueMarine— In this talk we will show you the blueMarine project, an opensource desktop application to support the photographic workflow. blueMarine is being designed following the best practices for the creation of a 'filthy rich client', from animations to the use of JOGL, and taking advantage of the rich framework delivered by the NetBeans Rich Client Platform.
IRIS, a RIA swing applet— Iris shows the power of modern Java applets, highlighting the following major features of the Java platform: Dynamic extension of applets: new techniques developed within the past year in the JOGL project allow applets to use OpenGL for 3D graphics, OpenAL for spatialized audio, Java Media codecs, and other extensions previously only available to desktop or Java Web Start applications.
