Flex

Favorite Development Cheatsheets

Dustin Marx — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:52:00 -0500

Although modern search engines have made it easier than ever to look up various details, it is still sometimes nice to have a go-to resource to refresh my memory about certain development tasks. I first started to appreciate materials like this when I encountered the famous Oracle data dictionary wall posters (such as this TUSC-provided poster and the Quest poster).

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Flex: Proxied HTTPService and REST

Dustin Marx — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:26:00 -0500

My article Java EE and Flex: A compelling combination, Part 2 was published on JavaWorld last week. In that article, I briefly discussed some of the extra features that BlazeDS adds to HTTPService beyond what is support with Flex's HTTPService out of the box without BlazeDS.

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Flex HTTPService: When POST is GET

Dustin Marx — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:49:00 -0500

A relatively infrequently encountered nuance of Flex 3's MXML/ActionScript's HTTPService that one may run into occurs when the HTTPService.method public property is set to "

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AIR-ifying a Flex/BlazeDS/Java EE Application

Dustin Marx — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:12:00 -0500

In my first blog post of 2009, I covered a simple example of applying BlazeDS's object remoting capabilities to associate a Flex client with a Java EE server.

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Must-Have Flex Development Tools Sans FlexBuilder

Dustin Marx — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:49:00 -0500

I previously blogged on the publication of my article JEE and Flex: A Compelling Combination, Part 1 on JavaWorld.

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Java EE and Flex: A Compelling Combination

Dustin Marx — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:57:00 -0500

My article Java EE and Flex: A Compelling Combination, Part 1 was published on JavaWorld today.

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Bare Bones BlazeDS Object Remoting

Dustin Marx — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:07:00 -0500

In this blog posting, I will demonstrate using BlazeDS for object remoting between a Flex client and a Java EE-based server.

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Data binding in Silverlight and Flex compared to JavaFX...

Chris Oliver — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:59:29 -0500

Silverlight

Flex

Don't be fooled by the naysayers and the hype.

Although JavaFX 1.0 is only a few days old, when it comes to data binding: functionality-wise, usability-wise, and performance-wise it appears to me it's already "no contest".

For those who've never actually tried JavaFX script, let me just say this: any JavaFX script variable may be bound to any expression

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View SWF Contents with Nemo 440

Dustin Marx — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:08:00 -0500

There are times when it is helpful to see the contents of a generated SWF to better understand what is being included in it. There are several tools that can help with this. I'll briefly summarize some of them here and provide a little additional detail on my preferred tool: Nemo 440.

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Java RIA Momentum

Dustin Marx — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:55:00 -0500

In my previous blog post, I briefly discussed Flex's growing circle of friends that gained a powerful friend with the addition of the Spring Framework and the announcement of the Spring BlazeDS Integration project.

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Flex's Increasing Circle of Friends: SpringSource

Dustin Marx — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:01:00 -0500

Many of us have discovered the benefits of using Flex for rich client side applications in conjunction with enterprise Java on the server side. The Flex/Java EE combination brings the best of both worlds to the developer seeking rich clients with robust enterprise strength back-ends.

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JavaFX released. Finally.

Andrew Glover — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:43:45 -0500

JavaFX 1.0 made its debut a few days back amid high hopes and a sea of doubt — some in the Java community believe JavaFX could become “the application environment for the Java platform,” while others say Sun has made nothing but mistakes on the client side, and JavaFX is too little, too late.

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Flex Error Handling: A Simple Example

Dustin Marx — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:23:00 -0500

I have recently read and heard about situations in which Flex error handling is misunderstood. In this blog entry, I'll attempt to demonstrate, with a simple example, how Flex error handling works and attempt to drive out some of the sources of confusion.

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Flex: More Like HTML or More Like Java?

Dustin Marx — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:51:00 -0500

Joshua Partogi recently posted Why You Might Not Want to Use Flex on his blog. I found this blog entry particularly interesting because Joshua does not focus on the usual criticisms of Flex (which often are actually of the Flash Player) and because Joshua's experience is almost exactly opposite of mine.

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Cascading Style Sheets: Flex 3 Style

Dustin Marx — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:51:00 -0500

One of the questions I was asked following one of my three presentations of Applying Flash to Java: Flex and OpenLaszlo at Colorado Software Summit 2008 was regarding Flex's support for Cascading Style Sh

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RIA Technology Perceptions in the Java Community

Dustin Marx — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:56:00 -0500

Several polls on java.net have interested me and the results of some of them have even surprised me. While these are not scientific polls and they could certainly be rigged by someone wanting to drive them to a certain suggestion, I don't think there are many developers interested in doing so. The comments can also be interesting.

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Java losing ground to Flex in RIA space

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:43:28 -0500

Here's a slew of items that ought to make anyone interested in the health of Java as a rich Internet application platform take pause. First off, Madison startup Sharendipity is running a series of blog posts about porting a Java-based application to Flex. After discussing why in many ways Java is a more appealing language to work in, the author gets to the heart of the matter:

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RIA Accessibility with Flex

Dustin Marx — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:39:00 -0500

The blog entry Accessibility in Adobe Flex was recently featured on DZone and reminded me of another question I was asked by an attendee of one of my three presentations of Applying Flash to Java: Flex and OpenLaszlo at Colorado Software Summit 2008.

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Printing Flex Data Grids

Dustin Marx — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:48:00 -0400

One of the questions that I was asked at Colorado Software Summit 2008 after one of my three presentations of Applying Flash to Java: Flex and OpenLaszlo was if there is a way to print the contents of a DataGrid.

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New WebORB for Java 3.0 release is available

mcoderkat — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:26:35 -0400

For those who don't know about WebORB for Java, and even those who do, there is a new release available. WebORB is used to make RIA development easy and less time consuming. It's also used as a runtime server delivering pre-recorded and real-time rich media to clients created in Flash, Flex, Ajax and now Silverlight from Java backends. Here's just a little bit about what's new in WebORB for Java 3.0.

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Communication Between Two Flex Applications

Dustin Marx — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:41:00 -0400

More than one attendee at the Colorado Software Symposium 2008 who attended my presentation Apply Flash to Java: Flex and OpenLaszlo asked how to allow two different Flash applications (.swf) files in the same web browser communicate with one another.

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The open platform problem, Part 2

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:36:26 -0400

You might recall a few weeks ago, when I discussed the fact that NetBeans makes it possible to cheat on the Java ecosystem, developing a rich Internet application with Adobe's AIR rather than Java's JavaFX. That app was based on PHP, but last Friday Javalobby posted a tutorial that will help you do the same sort of thing using the Java language!

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Google Chrome Web Browser

Dustin Marx — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:26:00 -0400

The Google Comic Book on Google Chrome provides insight into what to expect from the Google Chrome web browser. The AppleInsider article Google Planning New Chrome Browser Based on WebKit is a thorough and useful summary of some of the highlights of this project.

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Flex Charts with Google Charts and Eastwood Charts

Dustin Marx — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:29:00 -0400

Flex provides a rich, sophisticated set of dynamic charts, but a license fee is required (via purchase of FlexBuilder Professional) to use these Flex charts for most realistic production situa

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Free "Getting Started with Flex 3" in PDF

Dustin Marx — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:16:00 -0400

You can download a free copy of the PDF version of the book Getting Started with Flex 3 by taking either of two quizzes available at SitePoint. Details regarding the free PDF are available here.

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