Presenting Flex at the Seattle Java Users Group on Tuesday (January 16th)

I will be delivering a Flex presentation called “Sexy Web Apps with Java, Mozilla Tamarin, and Flex” at the Seattle Java Users Group on Tuesday January 16th at 6:45pm.

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January 12, 2007 | Filed Under Flex | 9 Comments 

Flex Data Management Services Tutorial

As part of the Flex Test Drive Server, I wrote a new Flex Data Management Services tutorial. The tutorial takes you through the full FDMS application development life cycle: Java assembler, destination, and client application. Additional topics include:

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January 12, 2007 | Filed Under Flex | 39 Comments 

Flex Test Drive Server for Java Developers (Tomcat-based)

I have been working on a Tomcat-based “Flex Test Drive Server”. The Test Drive Server is a minimal and ready-to-use version of Tomcat (currently version 5.5.20) in which the Flex Data Services (version 2.0.1) WAR file has already been deployed and configured along with a variety of tutorials and sample applications. It allows you to get up and running integrating Flex with Java back-ends in a matter of minutes. Download fds-tomcat.zip, expand the file, and run…

The Test Drive Server includes:

  1. An updated version of my 30 minutes Test drive for Java developers
  2. A brand new Flex Data Management Services tutorial
  3. Flex/Spring integration samples running “out-of-the-box”
  4. Flex/Hibernate integration samples running “out-of-the-box”
  5. Flex/JMS integration samples (JMS powered by ActiveMQ) running “out-of-the-box”
  6. A new version of my Real Time Market Data application with advanced messaging features: Java API (no JMS in this version), subtopics, etc.
  7. Collaboration Dashboard

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January 12, 2007 | Filed Under Collaboration, Flex, Java, Spring, hibernate | 103 Comments