Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Notable sites using Flex

Flex Application Development Process

Everything below is directly sourced from the help file in version 2.0:

  • Define an application interface using a set of pre-defined components (forms, buttons, and so on)
  • Arrange components into a user interface design   
  • Use styles and themes to define the visual design
  • Add dynamic behavior (one part of the application interacting with another, for example)
  • Define and connect to data services as needed 
  • Build the source code into an SWF file that runs in the Flash Player

LiveCycle Data Services

LiveCycle Data Services (previously called Flex Data Services) is a server-side complement to the main Flex SDK and Flex Builder IDE and is part of a family of server-based products available from Adobe. Deployed as a Java EE application, LiveCycle Data Services adds the following capabilities to Flex applications:
            Remoting, which allows Flex client applications to invoke methods on Java server objects directly. Similar to Java remote method invocation (RMI), remoting handles data marshalling automatically and uses a binary data transfer format.
            Messaging, which provides the "publish" end of the "publish/subscribe" design pattern. The Flash client can publish events to a topic defined on the server, subscribe to events broadcast from the message service. One of the common use cases for this is real-time streaming of data, such as financial data or system status information.
            Data management services, which provides a programming model for automatically managing data sets that have been downloaded to the Flex client. Once data is loaded from the server, changes are automatically tracked and can be synchronized with the server at the request of the application. Clients are also notified if changes to the data set are made on the server.
            PDF document generation, providing APIs for generating PDF documents by merging client data or graphics with templates stored on the server.

Flex-Flexible

                      I think we need a small introduction about Flex.The name itself says.Yes Flex is Flexible...

So what is Flex? 

                 Flex applications are Rich Internet Applications that are built using tools from Adobe. These Flex applications run inside the Flash player, leveraging the existing installed base of the Flash player.

                Flex is made up largely of two parts. The first is an IDE built on the open source Eclipse platform. That tool is called Flex Builder 2.0.As well, an SDK will be made available to developers who want to build Flex applications. The SDK will include the Flex compiler, giving developers who code by hand (without the IDE) the ability to create Flex applications. The other part of Adobe Flex is Adobe Flex Enterprise Services.

               

Rich Internet Applications

Hi  Hi  Hi...
                    I'm always a learner and I want to learn more and more from anybody who has the stuff. Be Ready to experience a Rich Ride with this Rich Internet Applications.
                    AJAX is popular for the creation of rich Internet applications, but there are good alternatives. This article will introduce you to Flex applications, rich Internet applications that run inside the Adobe Flash player.

                   The development of Rich Internet Applications is now underway. Some people are calling this "Web 2.0," but it is really the transition from a page based browsing experience to one that more closely resembles desktop applications. A variety of technologies can be used to deliver this experience; AJAX is currently one of the more popular sets of technologies, mainly because it can be easily adapted into existing web based applications.

                   However, for those who are looking for something more robust, there appears to be two early front runners: Flex based applications that run in the Flash player from Adobe, and XML based applications from Microsoft. In this article, I'll introduce you to Adobe's Flex product line, including Adobe Flex Builder and Adobe Flex Enterprise Services.

A Turning Point...

Hello Everyone,                       

                        Today (2-3-2009) I joined the chipkidz team to work as an Individual.I got this oppurtunity by the chipkidz team.Do U know the meaning of Individual?Individual refers to a person or to any specific object in a collection. In the 15th century and earlier, and also today within the fields of statistics and metaphysics, individual means "indivisible", typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meaning "a person". From the seventeenth century on, individual indicates separateness, as in individualism.[1] Individuality is the state or quality of being an individual; a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs, goals, and desires.

                        The first thing I learned from them is "Brand yourself ".Yes I am here to Brand myself. I'm in Tenth Planet. U all know that there are only nine planets in the solar family. Do u know why this name has come. They want to do only new things which are not currently present. Yes U are correct. We are gonna create Future Technologies.

                        Oh! sorry. I think I'm boring You.Let us start sharing my diary.We have lot of teams to innovate more.My team name is "Earth". Yes I got a place in earth.Our work is to create user friendly help desk which should satisfy all end-users who are using that.I like to help people... haha... Believe me...

                                  Meet you in my next Blog..........