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!
Bruce Eckel (www.BruceEckel.com) is the author of Thinking in Java (Prentice-Hall, 1998, 2nd Edition, 2000, 3rd Edition, 2003, 4th Edition, 2005), the Hands-On Java Seminar CD ROM (available on the Web site), Thinking in C++ (PH 1995; 2nd edition 2000, Volume 2 with Chuck Allison, 2003), C++ Inside and Out, among others. He's given hundreds of presentations throughout the world, published over 150 articles in numerous magazines, was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ committee and speaks regularly at conferences. He provides public and private seminars & design consulting in C++ and Java.
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
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.
