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WidgetFX: A Desktop Widget Platform Written in JavaFX
WidgetFX is an open-source desktop widget platform written in the JavaFX Script language. It takes advantage of the latest features in the Java Consumer JRE and runs on all major platforms including Windows XP/Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X.
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Flex Framework Mate, the Good and Bad
Mate is a tag-based Flex framework created by AsFusion in June 2008. In the period since InfoQ reported reactions among the Flex community on its release, Mate has been gaining attention among Flex developers. developer Per Olesen at TechPer has posted his findings about the good, the bad and the ugly of Mate on his blog
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Alcon 3: The alternative Open Source ActionScript Debugging Tool
Sascha Balkau has recently released Alcon 3, an alternative open source debugging tool for ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. InfoQ spoke with Balkau to discuss how Alcon 3 fits in ActionScript-based rich Internet Application development.
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AJAX Animator Demonstrates AJAX in RIA World
AJAX Animator is an open-source project uses AJAX technologies to provide a fully standards-based, online, collaborative, Web-based animation suite. The 0.2 release shows good potential for AJAX plays in the RIA world. The creator of AJAX Animator recently shared his insights with InfoQ.
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Filtrbox: Semantic Web in Flex RIA
Semantic Web technologies and services lie at the heart of the effort to drive the Web to the next generation as a universal medium for data, information and knowledge exchange. Filtrobox is a Semantic Web startup. InfoQ spoke with Filtrbox RIA Flex Developer, Justin Imhoff, to gain insight into the resources and technologies needed for such a startup.
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Overview of the Appcelerator RIA Platform
In this post, InfoQ discusses the Appcelerator platform with Matt Quinlan, Vice President of Community Development at Appcelerator. Quinlan highlights the strengths of Appcelerator and some of its common uses.
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John Resig on TraceMonkey and the future of JavaScript-based RIAs
The newly announced TraceMonkey is a trace-based JIT compiler that will be featured in the next release of Firefox and pushes the envelope on JavaScript performance. InfoQ has a Q&A with Mozilla JavaScript Evangelist and jQuery creator John Resig about this exiting development and what it signifies for the future of JavaScript-based RIAs.
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Near C Performance for RIAs with Next Generation Mozilla JavaScript Engine
The Mozilla Foundation has developed TraceMonkey a trace-based JIT compiler that pushes the envelope on JavaScript performance. With plans to be incorporated it in the 3.1 release of Firefox, it delivers near C performance and promises to ‘leap frog’ RIA development to a new level.
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Article: ActionScript 3 for Java Programmers
Often the hardest part of changing technologies is language syntax differences. This new article provides Java developers with a transition guide to Actionscript which forms the foundation of Flex.
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Open Source Data Integration Software XAware 5.1 Supports REST, XML Validation and JMX BizComponent
The latest version of XAware, an open-source composite data services software supports REST operations, XML schema validation and enhancements to JMX BizComponent monitoring component. XAware development team last week announced release of version 5.1 of the data integration solution which can be used for creating and managing data services for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications.
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Robert Bell on Java and Silverlight Interop
Robert Bell, Microsoft Solution Architect, introduces interoperability scenarios for using Silverlight from Java and provides architectural guidance using sample code snippets.
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FXStruts: Developing Flex-Friendly Struts Application
Struts is a Java framework based on standard Java technologies, such as Java Servlet, JavaBean, ResourceBundles and XML. Java developers have been enjoying Struts as a solid server side framework for many years. Recently, a technical evangelist for Adobe Systems, Anirudh Sasikumar, developed a new solution by integrating Flex as Struts' front end. Sasikumar calls it FxStruts.
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Soltice Fuses the Power of Flex and OSGi
Over recent months, the Open Source Gateway Initiative (OSGi) has been gaining attention in the application server technology space. While OSGi makes application server products more modular and flexible, its adaptation in the rich Internet application (RIA) area is only getting started. Solstice is the first framework to integrate Flex and OSGi in a single out-of-the-box package.
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From Concept to Reality: JavaFX SDK Preview Released
Fifteen months after it was first announced, Sun has released the first public preview of JavaFX for Windows and Mac OS X.
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Alternative Flash RIA Development Tool FDT 3.1 Beta Released
FDT is alternative RIA development tool in Flash, ActionScript or Adobe AIR. The latest release improves Flex SDK based application development.