Monthly Archives: February 2009

Tampa User Group: Flex 4, Catalyst, SpringSource and more…

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 26, 2009
The Tampa Flash, Flex and AIR Developers Group has a special meeting next Wednesday (March 4th) with an impressive agenda (including Flex 4, AIR 1.5, Catalyst, CF Next, Spring/BlazeDS presentations), and an equally impressive speaker line up: Ben Forta, Greg Wilson, Kevin Hoyt. Jeremy Grelle, SpringSource Engineering lead will also present the recently released Spring / [...]
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ILog Elixir 2 Released: Calendar Component, Heat Maps, and More…

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 25, 2009
ILOG has released V2 of their Elixir Flex components. The list of new components available in version 2 includes: Calendar, Gantt task charts, heatmaps, and OLAP/pivot charts. All the version 1 components have been improved as well. Check out the live demos here. Additional product information is available here. I recently posted a sample Adobe AIR application [...]
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Spring / BlazeDS Integration on Adobe TV

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 20, 2009
In this new Adobe TV episode, I demonstrate how to build Flex applications that connect to a Spring back-end using the new Spring / BlazeDS Integration project. If you are interested in this integration, make sure you check out the Spring / BlazeDS Integration page on the SpringSource web site and the new Spring / BlazeDS [...]
Posted in BlazeDS, Flex, Java, Spring | 42 Comments

My New Adobe TV Episode: Model-Driven Development in Flex Builder 4 and LCDS “Next”

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 18, 2009
Using Adobe Flex Builder 4 and LCDS “Next”, you will be able to build data-driven applications using a Model-Driven Development approach. In this Adobe TV episode, I give a sneak peek of this new feature.
Posted in Flex, LiveCycle Data Services | 8 Comments

Speaking at QCon London in March

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 17, 2009
I will be speaking at the QCon Conference in London again this year. QCon is a very high quality conference with deep technical content around Java, .NET, SOA, etc. I highly recommend it if you have the opportunity. I’m particularly excited about my presentation this year: In addition to “sneak peeking” some new development [...]
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Tour of California 2009 with Lance Armstrong, Flex and LiveCycle Data Services

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 13, 2009
The 2009 edition of the Tour of California starts tomorrow. For the third consecutive year, you will be able to follow the race live using the Adobe Tour Tracker. Read the press release here. I wrote about the initial implementation of the LCDS backend back in 2007. This write-up is now a little dated but still provides [...]
Posted in Flex, LiveCycle Data Services | 6 Comments

Sample application using the Swiz Framework and BlazeDS

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 13, 2009
There have been a lot of discussions around Flex Frameworks lately. Tony Hillerson has an interesting series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 A relative newcomer on the list is Swiz, the work of Chris Scott. I figured I would give it a try, and create a Swiz version of the inSync application that I [...]
Posted in Air, BlazeDS, Flex, Java, LCDS | 11 Comments

Quicklook: Offline Flex Calendar Application with iLog and SQLite

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 5, 2009
I have been playing with the new iLog calendar component that I plan to incorporate in the next version of Salesbuilder. In the meantime, I figured I would share this simple application that shows how to use the iLog component and persist its calendar data in a local SQLite database. This application only uses a subset [...]
Posted in Flex | 13 Comments