Flex News Desk

ASP.NET AJAX is a natural candidate for RIA development under the .NET framework. However, there are other complementary or even alternative technologies that are worth your consideration. This session will start with a brief market overview and outline the pros and cons of some ... (more)

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET or experiment with such newcomers as AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, or JavaFX. While the Internet brin... (more)

This session will address issues to consider when selecting an AJAX toolkit and the most effective IDE for the implementation. It will identify the 30-40 UI components most commonly used in business and mission critical software applications that can be used as a benchmark for ev... (more)

In our annual round-up of technology predictions, Yakov Fain - editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's Flex Developer's Journal - says "Flash Player will remain the best deployment platform for rich Internet applications. While Microsoft is trying to come up with a competitive delivering pl... (more)

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of having a good logging facility when you develop distributed  applications. Did the client’s request reached the server-side component? What did the server send back?  Add to this the inability to use debuggers while processi... (more)

Mozilla Labs announces "a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur". This product is called Pr... (more)

RadView Software Ltd. has announced that its WebLOAD Professional has become a full-featured product to load test applications developed with Adobe Flex 2 software and the AMF3 protocol.  WebLOAD’s support for Adobe Flex covers all phases of load testing and enables users t... (more)

Adobe has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity and its ground-breaking online word processor, Buzzword. The acquisition furthers Adobe's commitment to foster a vibrant ecosystem for rich Internet application (RIA) development that delivers breakthrough experi... (more)

Media distribution developer PassAlong Networks and Cynergy Systems, Inc., have announced a series of media products based on Adobe Flex technology. The partnership includes PassAlong’s OnTour concert information widgets and the Speakerheart artist-controlled music manageme... (more)

Today, at Max 2007, Adobe has announced availability and the list of new features of  the second public beta release of Flex 3 SDK and Flex Builder 3. Below is a quote of this announcement: "Check out these important new features in Flex 3 beta 2: New wizard support for .NET New w... (more)

Ted Patrick, a technical evangelist for Adobe, has some interesting news for  Flex developers. -- D(["mb","\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp style\u003d\"margin:.5em 0\"\>New packaging and pricing will be available for Adobe Flex 3 when it ships early in 2008.\u003c/p\>\n... (more)

Today is the first day of the MAX 2007 North America, the main Adobe event of the year. The conference was sold out – the registration has been closed at the mark of after 4300 attendees. Apparently, the conference organizers where caught by surprise – attendance of t... (more)

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Adobe and BEA have announced partnership across four products: “The companies will work together to provide customers with a powerful design environment for rich Internet application (RIA) development. Separately, they will bring together best in class application server te... (more)

AJAX developers brought Web 2.0 to the browser. Now they can leverage their JavaScript and HTML skills - as well as the IDEs they are familiar with and already use - to build the next generation of desktop applications that span platforms. Scott Fegette of Adobe will demonstrate ... (more)

"The new Flex SDK was requested by several of our customers, to leverage Lightstreamer Server for both AJAX and Flash/Flex applications, and we are now glad to publicly release it," said Alessandro Alinone (pictured), CTO of Lightstreamer, as the comapny released today a new clie... (more)

The need to support off-line capabilities has driven some RIA providers back to the fat client platform. For example, Adobe AIR, Google Gears, and Slingshot are all examples of this trend. The fat client offers a lot of advantages over RIA technologies such as AJAX, but there are... (more)

A Real-World AJAX Project Presenting richly formatted or legacy documents in as part of a rich internet application can be challenging, particularly when there is a large volume of information to present. Using a real-world project as an example, this session will discuss how Fle... (more)

Reporting is one of the most important but complex to implementation aspects of enterprise AJAX applications. This session covers several major reporting challenges and will offer a solution to those challenges. It's not a trivial task to create an AJAX application that would all... (more)

'This is great news as it means yet another excellent Flex resource,' blogged Rich Tretola on his 'Everything Flex' blog in response to the announcement by SYS-CON Media last week of the launch of Flex Developer's Journal as an online technical publication for developers that are... (more)