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Ted Patrick on Flex 3 Beta 2
Ted Patrick of Adobe Systems has been blogging over the last week on some of the exciting new additions and improvements coming in the Beta 2 release of Flex 3.
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Hessian Binary Web Service Protocol Adds Adobe Flash/Flex Support
Last week, Caucho Technology, Inc. announced Flash and Flex support to their Hessian framework with a 100% ActionScript implementation. Hessian is a binary web service protocol developed by Caucho.
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Adobe's James Ward on Upcoming Flex 3 Enhancements and Silverlight
Adobe has been working hard on their upcoming Adobe Flex 3.0 release, expected in early 2008. Adobe Flex is a developer toolset for building Rich Internet Applications that run in the browser with Flash Player or on the desktop with Adobe AIR. InfoQ talked with Adobe’s James Ward, Technical Evangelist, to learn more about the upcoming release.
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The Three Religions of Rich Internet Applications
From Ajax to Silverlight, from Adobe Integrated Runtime to Flex and Flash, from JavaFX to OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Aplications seem to be on the tip of everyone's tongue these days. What people mean when they talk about Rich Internet Applications differs. Simon Morris cuts through all that to identify a taxonomy of Rich Internet Applications, the "three distinct religions in the RIA space."
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Adobe Announces Open Source Roadmap for Flex
Continuing their dive into open source, Adobe has announced a road map for the transition of Flex to open source. Last fall Adobe contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation to create the Tamarin project.
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Is XML the Future of UI Development?
Or is it JavaScript? A common trend in the new crop of desktop UI frameworks is that they are XML based with some sort of support for JavaScript. We take a brief look at AJAX, WPF/XAML, Flex/MXML, and Firefox’s Gran Paradiso.
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Checking in on Apollo
Adobe released the Alpha of Apollo a few weeks ago and there have been many reactions to the product and Flex in general since. Additionally, Adobe updated Flex.org to make it easier to get started with Flex.
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Apollo Alpha SDK Released
Adobe has released the first public alpha of Apollo. Apollo is the code name for their cross-operating system runtime supporting HTML, Javascript, Flash and PDF in both online and offline modes. Included in the release is the SDK with command line tools for Apollo applications.
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Bruce Eckel: Use Flex as the UI for Java Applications
Bruce Eckel has written about the future of user interfaces in Java. He reviews the state of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and states that while Ajax helps, a language designed for user interfaces and rich media is what we need. He proposes that we stop trying to use one language (Java) to solve all of our problems , and instead use Flex and Apollo as a front-end for systems written in Java.
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Flex and Rails Integration on Many Fronts
Several projects to leverage Adobe Flex from Ruby on Rails are very active lately. Here is a rundown of what's up, and plenty of links.
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Adobe Releases Flex Cookbook Online Beta
This week Adobe released an online cookbook for Flex application development tips. There also seems to be a defined path for taking the snippets available online and bundling them into an O'Reilly compilation in the future.
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Common Flex Myths Debunked
Flex Evangelist Ted Patrick has posted 10 common myths about Flex 2.0, debunking such ideas as Flex requiring a special server to it not working well with Ajax.
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Adobe Releases Flash Player Beta for Linux
Adobe has recently released a beta of Flash Player 9 for Linux. This allows Linux users to view sites that make heavy use of Flash like YouTube, Yahoo Maps Beta, and InfoQ's own Flash based interviews and presentations.
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Adobe Releases Flex SDK for Ruby on Rails
Adobe has released an SDK with four full examples for developing rich Internet applications using Rails and Adobe Flex technologies.
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A 30 Minute Flex Test Drive for Java Developers
In response to comments from an earlier piece on how Flex can transform the user experience of the web, Christophe Coenraets, a Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe, has written a 30 minute Flex test drive for Java developers.