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Flex Meets Google App Engine

This tutorial shows you how to integrate a basic servlet with Flex and how to persist incoming data using Google's datastore. Full Story »

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Flex 3 in Action

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Flex 3 in Action' (by Tariq Ahmed). This chapter covers ActionScript's...

2 replies - 1034 views - 11/16/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Integrating PHP with Flash Collaboration Services

Adobe recently announced the availability of a framework called LiveCycle Collaboration Services (LCCS). With LCCS you can create real-time collaborative...

0 replies - 605 views - 11/16/09 by Ryan Stewart in Articles

Interview: Michael Slinn, Author of LiveCycle Data Services ES Refcard

I recently had the opportunity to catch up with Michael Slinn, author of the DZone LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS) ES Refcard, as well as the recently released...

0 replies - 1061 views - 11/10/09 by lyndsey in Videos

Exclusive Interview: Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward

In this interview, recorded at Adobe MAX 2009, Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward talks about some of his recent work driving Flex adoption at large...

0 replies - 1889 views - 11/05/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Data-centric Flex Development with the Tide framework

Flex provides various means of exchanging data with a remote server that virtually allows you to integrate a Flex application with any kind of server...

0 replies - 843 views - 11/05/09 by wdrai in Articles

Meet the Author - Shashank Tiwari on BlazeDS, Flex & Java Integration

DZone this week released the exclusive Getting Started with BlazeDS Refcard, authored by Shashank Tiwari, a New York-based Flex consultant and author of the...

1 replies - 1475 views - 10/28/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Flash on iPhone: Adobe Clears a Hurdle, But More Remain

Mobile devices by Palm, Microsoft, Google, and Symbian were all indicated as recipients of an upcoming beta of Flash Player 10.1 at last week's Adobe MAX...

2 replies - 2678 views - 10/12/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Flex 3 with Java Book Review

0 replies - 3321 views - 09/29/09 by bladewheels in Book Reviews

Integrating Flex and Spring based JMS applications

This article explains the essentials of leveraging the Spring BlazeDS project to integrate Spring based JMS systems with Flex powered rich internet...

0 replies - 8986 views - 09/28/09 by Shashank Tiwari in Articles

Five great new features in Flash Builder 4 beta

I have already written about the data-centric development features of Flash Builder 4 beta. This is a major theme in the...

0 replies - 1071 views - 09/21/09 by tbuntel in News

Enterprise Security for Flex

The Spring BlazeDS Integration project combined with the new Flexible Chimp project for client-side filtering provides an ideal solution for fully...

0 replies - 3056 views - 09/14/09 by jonrose182 in News

Book Review: Professional Adobe Flex 3

0 replies - 1695 views - 09/14/09 by dilipvshah@hotm... in Book Reviews

Iterative Design/Development with Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder

As I talk to more and more designers and developers one of the things that comes up is whether Catalyst makes it easier or harder to do...

1 replies - 672 views - 09/08/09 by Ryan Stewart in News

Introduction to Flex - for PHP Developers

I’ve been working with web related technologies since the late ‘90s, and my first server side technology was PHP. Later on, I did ColdFusion and Java...

0 replies - 12512 views - 08/27/09 by mcorlan in Articles

Zend Updates Flagship IDE, Adds Support for PHP 5.3

Zend Technologies today unveiled a major new release of its Zend Studio development environment, adding support for the newly-released PHP 5.3 platform. Zend...

0 replies - 1494 views - 07/29/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

New PHP Features in Flash Builder 4 - Part 3: Implicit Paging and Data Management

In the second part of this series, we looked at using using Zend AMF and Flash Remoting. In this final part, we will explore implicit paging, inline editing...

0 replies - 6935 views - 07/27/09 by Kevin Hoyt in Articles

Tech Chat - Greg Wilson on Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite

In this interview, recorded at JavaOne 2009, Greg Wilson, Enterprise Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems,  provides an overview of the Adobe LiveCycle...

0 replies - 2706 views - 07/22/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Adobe Unveils Two New Open Source Projects

Today we’re announcing two more projects going up on opensource.adobe.com and becoming part of the open source family at Adobe. The first is the...

0 replies - 1658 views - 07/21/09 by Ryan Stewart in News

New PHP Features in Flash Builder 4 - Part 2: Using Zend AMF and Flash Remoting

The first of this three part series provided an overview of the new data-centric PHP development features in Flash Builder 4.  This part looks at using Zend...

3 replies - 8012 views - 07/20/09 by Kevin Hoyt in Articles

New PHP Features in Flash Builder 4 - Part 1: Data-Centric Feature Overview

PHP and the Flash Platform are  no strangers. when Flash Player 4 added dynamic data features via query strings, PHP was there. When Flash Player 5 added XML...

0 replies - 13729 views - 07/13/09 by Kevin Hoyt in Articles

Introduction to the Tide framework for Flex 3

Tide is an open source application framework for Adobe Flex that has been part of the Granite Data Services project for more than one year. It was developed at...

1 replies - 5876 views - 07/06/09 by wdrai in Articles

A Comparison of Flex 3 and Flex 4 beta

The Flex 4 (codename: Gumbo) beta release is a major change from Flex 3. The Flex 4 beta introduces a new component and skinning architecture. As a...

0 replies - 7768 views - 06/19/09 by jlafferty in News

What's new in Flash Builder 4 beta

The entire Adobe Flex team is delighted to introduce you to Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta, formerly known as Adobe Flex Builder....

10 replies - 7277 views - 06/16/09 by tbuntel in News

What's New in Adobe Flex 4

This summer brings the first full public preview of Adobe Flex 4 (codenamed Gumbo). The Flex 4 beta comes with a number of significant updates and enhancements...

8 replies - 9858 views - 06/01/09 by jonrose182 in Articles

Flex Remoting on Google App Engine

I'm not personally related to Adobe, Google nor Sun but I like to code in Java. I am happy to see that Adobe filling the gap which Sun left years ago with...

6 replies - 6241 views - 05/29/09 by yenerm in Articles

Integrating Flex & PHP - An Introductory Tutorial

Ten years ago or so, the World Wide Web primarily meant static HTML. Horrendous JavaScript, trivial games, and frivolous splash pages represented the common...

7 replies - 16831 views - 05/28/09 by LarryUllman in Articles

Flex 3 In Action: Free Chapters

We're giving away two free chapters from the new Flex 3 In Action book in association with Manning Publications. Flex 3 in Action is an easy-to-follow,...

8 replies - 2680 views - 05/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

James Ward on Flex, AIR and Java

I recently had a conversation with James Ward,Technical Evangalist for Flex at Adobe. We started by discussing what Flex and AIR are, and the differences...

4 replies - 9261 views - 04/29/09 by James Sugrue in Uncategorized

Hello World in Adobe Air

A couple of days ago I created my first Adobe Air HTML/Ajax app. Getting from a standard web app to Adobe Air is quite simple it turns out, and in this short...

1 replies - 1216 views - 05/04/09 by mootymoots in News

An Introduction to Spring BlazeDS Integration

Last December, SpringSource and Adobe announced a partnership aimed at streamlining the integration between Spring and BlazeDS. This partnership has led to the...

12 replies - 48773 views - 04/02/09 by christophe coenraets in Articles

Where are the RIA "killer apps"?

I've found, over the years, that in almost every successful field of technology there's a "killer app," a category-leader so strong as to...

20 replies - 6901 views - 04/28/09 by kas_thomas in News

Automatic serialization of ActionScript objects to and from XML

In Flex applications...

2 replies - 4506 views - 04/23/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

Flex and Spring Integration Refcard Released: Meet The Authors

Today we release the Flex & Spring Integration Refcard, which is now available to download. I asked the authors, James Ward and Jon Rose, a little bit more...

0 replies - 3949 views - 04/06/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Flex best practices – Part 2: Development practices

Part 1 of this series focused on best practices for setting up your Flex projects. In Part 2, I continue the discussion by outlining best practices to...

0 replies - 14845 views - 03/16/09 by seantheflexguy in News

Bringing data into Flex applications

This article will describe the most common ways to bring data into a Flex application and will present the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It...

0 replies - 5533 views - 04/01/09 by ccreanga in News

Render PDF in Adobe AIR with PDF Scaling

AIR can render PDFs using the HTMLControl as long as the host computer has Acrobat 8 or later installed. I have seen many examples of doing this, just...

1 replies - 1663 views - 04/27/09 by cgiamett in News

Getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta

At Adobe MAX, Adobe announced the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (formerly, code name “Cocomo”) project that you can use to add real-time...

1 replies - 4711 views - 03/23/09 by Ryan Stewart in News

Bringing Data into Flex Applications - Introduction

This article will describe the most common ways to bring data into a Flex application and will present the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It...

3 replies - 4998 views - 11/17/08 by ccreanga in Articles

Providing AMF REST Resources in Java

Action Message Format (AMF) is a high-performance web services protocol that was developed and designed especially for Flash applications by Adobe. AMF is...

1 replies - 3583 views - 03/19/09 by stoicflame in Articles

Flex best practices – Part 1: Setting up your Flex project

This is the first part of my series on using and applying best practices to your Flex development process. This article will focus on best...

1 replies - 14713 views - 03/11/09 by seantheflexguy in News

Quick Introduction to the Mate Framework for Flex

Although at work I have implemented Cairngorm as our preferred framework, for the personal projects that you see on my blog, I have my own framework of...

0 replies - 2155 views - 02/20/09 by gladders in News

Flex Guys Are Going Too Far

There’s been a lot of fuzz lately in the Flex community around the way the Flex SDK Open Source efforts are handled by Adobe. And let’s just say things...

0 replies - 677 views - 03/11/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in Articles

Flight Framework: Another Flex Framework?

At 360|Flex this last month there were 5 different framework-centric presentations, from Adobe’s Cairngorm down to build-your-own-framework. Each...

0 replies - 1572 views - 02/27/09 by xtyler in News

Very First Steps in Flex

Rich Internet Applications and Flex are taking off. Many developers need to learn Flex fast. This refcard will help readers get started learning Flex. Firstly,...

4 replies - 51493 views - 08/17/08 by Nitin Bharti in Refcardz

Flexible Rails Refcard Available - Download Now

Peter Armstrong, author of Flexible Rails and Enterprise Flexible Rails, has put together an overview of Flex and Rails. Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2...

5 replies - 7752 views - 06/22/08 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Flex

Flex is getting a lot of buzz lately. A lot of people may be interested in using it just because they’ve heard good things, but they aren’t really sure...

29 replies - 11370 views - 09/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Migrating Java EE Web Applications to Adobe Flex and Granite Data Services

One of the original goals of the Granite Data Services project (current version is 1.2.0 GA) was to make easier the migration of existing J2EE applications to...

4 replies - 6777 views - 01/09/09 by Franck Wolff in Articles

Flex 3 : Dynamic Layouts With Repeaters

When you have a static number of items to display, presentation is easy. But what if this amount is dynamic? This is when the use of a Repeater can help. A...

0 replies - 17083 views - 11/12/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Being creative again: Flex or Java?

Amongst the things that really amazed me this afternoon in Gent was Lovely Charts, an online charting application that’s currently under semi-private beta....

14 replies - 4222 views - 01/26/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

From Java to ActionScript 3 - Part 1

I have been a dedicated Java developer for over 5 years. Not only that, but I consider myself a Java enthusiast. For several reasons, however, I have decided...

6 replies - 6525 views - 07/10/08 by Camilo Arango in News

Layout Prototyping Part 1: XML

GUI Layout is hard, but is it harder then it should be in Java? Can we do something to better the situation? My next few blogs will be about prototyping...

12 replies - 6425 views - 11/17/08 by cfagan in News

Creating Fixed-Column Tables in Pivot

I came across this Flex demo the other day that demonstrates the use of fixed columns in a Flex data grid: I wanted to see how this might work in Pivot....

6 replies - 2994 views - 08/27/08 by Greg Brown in News

Flex & PHP Tutorial - Transmitting data using JSON

To make sure we don't get too stuck in a rut with our tutorial posts I decided to branch out a little bit and talk about Adobe Flex 2.0. I recently spent a...

0 replies - 7340 views - 01/15/09 by Charlie Key in News

My PHP Best Practices

PHP's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. Flexibility.There are an infinite number of ways to perform the same task which PHPwill happily do...

1 replies - 5908 views - 11/27/08 by Mike Bernat in News

PHP Refcard Available - Download Now

PHP is the world's most popular server-side Web scripting language. This reference card was created to help you quickly navigate some of PHP's most commonplace...

2 replies - 4401 views - 09/29/08 by Nitin Bharti in News

Open-source Web applications, PHP vs. Java (Part 1 of 2)

It is common knowledge that PHP does well in the open-source Web applications space. PHP has numerous representatives for most application categories, and...

24 replies - 13314 views - 04/28/08 by Robert Enyedi in News

Open-source Web applications, PHP vs. Java (Part 2 of 2)

The first part of this article reviewed some relevant open-source Web applications in both the PHP and Java worlds. The conclusion was that there...

17 replies - 7567 views - 05/01/08 by Robert Enyedi in News

Flex Layout Vs Java Layout - First impressions

At work I was asked to take a look at Flex. I know a lot of people point to Flex as something Java should aspire to. With that in mind I had high hopes for the...

7 replies - 8114 views - 05/15/08 by cfagan in News