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Adobe Flash Player 10 Released
Today, Adobe announced that Flash Player 10 Beta is now publicly available, the project was previously code named “Astro.” With competitors like JavaFX and Microsoft Silverlight working hard on their own solutions, Adobe Flash Player 10 will include a number of significant enhancements.
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The Sun Deflextions Continue
In what is becoming an ever more popular move for those working on Java client technologies, Hans Muller, the now former CTO for Sun's Desktop division, made the move from Sun Microsystems to Adobe’s Flex team this week.
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Adobe Flex Coding Convention Document Triggered Discussions
On April 18, 2008, Adobe released its Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices. The release has triggered debate among developers in the Flex RIA community on what is the best way of coding in Flex or ActionScript.
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Flex, AIR and AS3 Flex Gain Code Coverage Utilities
Joe Berkovitz recently announced the initial experimental release of Flexcover, which is an open source code coverage tool suite for Flex, AIR and AS3. To learn more about Flexover, InfoQ spoke with Berkovtz.
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Adobe Moves Towards Greater Flash Openness and Availability
This week Adobe continued their push towards greater openness within their Flash based technologies. In a move greatly targeted at developers, major adjustments were made to eliminate the licensing restrictions and third-party fees for distributing the Flash Player runtime.
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IntelliJ IDEA Supports Flex Development
JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA is one of Java developers' the most favorite development IDEs. The recent IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 release includes some new features supports Flex application development. To understand how Flex RIA developers can utilize InitelliJ's new features and future plan for Flex, InfoQ spoke with Ann Oreshnikova, marketing director of JetBrains.
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Flex Startup Helps Learning New Languages
It's not uncommon lately for startup companies utilizing RIA technologies to delivery their ideas and services. Adobe Flex based startup Babbel is one good example. To allow our readers learn the insight on how a Flex startup's architecture is designed and implemented, InfoQ spoke with Thomas Holl, CTO of Lesson Nine GmbH, the company behind Babbel.
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Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications
In this post, Adobe’s James Ward teams up with InfoQ.com to bring you another Flex Top 10 (our most recent Flex Top 10). Overall, Flex is a powerful framework that is easy to use, but today let's focus on some of the common mistakes that are made when building Flex applications.
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Flex and the Open Web
Kevin Dangoor of SitePen recently blogged about Flash, Silverlight and the Open Web. He offers his defense for open standards as the best future for the web. Adobe's Ryan Stewart, a Flex evangelist, responds.
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FleXtense Helps Flex Applications Access Web Services
Most of RIA applications connect to the servers to retrieve data. FleXtense is one of the tools to help a RIA, such as a Flex application, to consume web services. FleXtense 2.0 is scheduled to release in April 2008. InfoQ spoke with Murat Cim and Ozkan Yilmaz, the founder/creator of FleXtense, for details on how FleXtense can help RIA development.
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Stephan Janssen On Parleys.com And The RIA Landscape
InfoQ.com sat down with Stephan Janssen to learn about Parleys.com and ask his perspective on the emerging RIA platforms. Stephan is the founder of the JavaPolis conference held annually in Belgium. JavaPolis is currently the second largest Java conference, behind only JavaOne.
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Integrating Flex 3.0 and RabbitMQ Using STOMP
Derek Wischusen shared his experiment that integrating RabbitMQ with a Flex 3 using an ActionScript 3 STOMP client. It's a demonstration of messaging oriented RIA application concept.
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RIATest for Flex Released Beta Product
RIATest, a Flex GUI test automation tool released the beta product to public. InfoQ spoke to Tigran Najaryan, the founder and creator of RIATest, about this release.
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AIR 1.0: Kevin Hoyt and Matt Rozen From Adobe Give Platform Overview
With the production release of Adobe AIR, InfoQ sat down with Adobe’s Kevin Hoyt and Matt Rozen to learn more about the platform.
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Flex 3.0: Update From Adobe's James Ward
With the production release of Flex 3, InfoQ sat down with Adobe’s James Ward to find out more about Flex 3. Last year, Ward gave InfoQ readers an overview of Flex 3 and discounted a number of Flex misconceptions. In this interview, Ward discusses Flex and open source, along with a number of items from the Flex ecosystem.