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InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay

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Architecture,
Java
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Rich Internet Apps,
Web 2.0,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Cloud Computing

In this case study InfoQ reviews the usage of Adobe AIR and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the NASDAQ Market Replay application. NASDAQ Market Replay provides a NASDAQ-validated replay and analysis of the activity in the stock market. The combination of S3 and AIR offers a powerful deployment model with little internal infrastructure required.

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Flash Content Now Searchable

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Java
Topics
Web 2.0,
Rich Internet Apps,
Rich Client / Desktop

In Adobe’s continuing push to eliminate the common objections to Flash adoption comes news that SWF files, the binary format for the Flash Player, is now indexable by Google and Yahoo’s search engines. This is important news for application developers using or considering using Adobe Flex, and the resulting applications will now be searchable.

Defining RIA, Web 2.0, and AJAX

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Java
Topics
Web 2.0,
Rich Internet Apps,
Rich Client / Desktop

Christopher Keene, of WaveMaker Software, attempts to define common web development terms in a blog post earlier this month. He offers a detailed overview on the terms and how to view them together. In a separate, thread former Adobe Executive, David Mendels, discusses how the term RIA came to be, and the value it has today.

OpenFlux Component Framework for Flex

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Java
Topics
Web 2.0,
Rich Internet Apps,
Rich Client / Desktop

OpenFlux offers Flex developers an open source component framework based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture. The library has a set of components that currently includes Buttons, Lists, and ScrollBars. The goal of OpenFlux is to make it easy to “dramatically” customize components within a Flex application, without fear of breaking other parts of the component

Railo joins JBoss.org

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Java
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Announcements,
Language

Swiss software house Railo have announced that they are joining JBoss.org and will be releasing their Java based ColdFusion Markup Language engine for free under the LGPL.

InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Web 2.0,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Cloud Computing

In this case study InfoQ reviews the usage of Adobe AIR and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the NASDAQ Market Replay application. It is an exciting time for the software industry, as the NASDAQ Market Replay implementation demonstrates that a powerful data driven application can be brought to the market quickly and deployed within a limited budget.

Articles about Adobe

Building Web and Desktop Applications with BlazeDS and AMF

Community
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Rich Client / Desktop

Client/server communication is a key part of today's RIA architectures. In this article James Ward and Shashank Tiwari dive into Adobe's open source BlazeDS messaging server. The article describes the benefits of the AMF data format and how to use BlazeDS with a Java based server side application.

Interviews about Adobe

James Ward discusses Flex and AIR

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Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, James Ward discusses Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Flex and AIR, how Flex helps in the development of RIAs, the changes in ActionScript 3, the Tamarin engine, desktop and offline capabilities, Flex Builder, the Flex developer community, LiveCycle Data Services, the AMF protocol, RIA development trends, and the Flex component model.

Presentations about Adobe

Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR

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Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco, Cristophe Coenraets discusses the benefits of Flex for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development, the API that Flex provides to developers, the new AIR runtime, and several examples of RIAs built using Flex, Flash and AIR, such as a word processor, a call center application, and a book viewer.