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The Web 2.0 revolution has clearly descended upon the software industry, but many InfoQ.com readers still have to deal with volumes of Web 1.0 code. So, what is one to do with those old applications? In their article, Porting From Web 1.0 To Rich Internet Applications (RIA), James Ward and Shashank Tiwari walk through replacing a Web 1.0 interface with a rich Adobe Flex user interface.
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.
Scott Delap provides an overview of Swing and Eclipse RCP technologies in today's world of RIA applications, as well as advances in deployment techniques such as Java Web Start and Pack200 which assist in the centralized deployment of desktop apps. Scott also compares when to use Java vs. other technologies such as Ajax, Flex, and OpenLazslo.
PyAMF 0.3.1 was released this week, just in time to meet the increased interest on Python and RIA generated by the recent preview release of Google App Engine and the announcement of Adobe's Open Screen Project.
On April 18, 2008, Adobe released its Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices. The release has triggered debate among developers in the Flex RIA community on what is the best way of coding in Flex or ActionScript.
Joe Berkovitz recently announced the initial experimental release of Flexcover, which is an open source code coverage tool suite for Flex, AIR and AS3. To learn more about Flexover, InfoQ spoke with Berkovtz.
This week Adobe continued their push towards greater openness within their Flash based technologies. In a move greatly targeted at developers, major adjustments were made to eliminate the licensing restrictions and third-party fees for distributing the Flash Player runtime.
JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA is one of Java developers' the most favorite development IDEs. The recent IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 release includes some new features supports Flex application development. To understand how Flex RIA developers can utilize InitelliJ's new features and future plan for Flex, InfoQ spoke with Ann Oreshnikova, marketing director of JetBrains.
It's not uncommon lately for startup companies utilizing RIA technologies to delivery their ideas and services. Adobe Flex based startup Babbel is one good example. To allow our readers learn the insight on how a Flex startup's architecture is designed and implemented, InfoQ spoke with Thomas Holl, CTO of Lesson Nine GmbH, the company behind Babbel.
