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Flash Content Now Searchable
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.
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Consumer JRE: Applets Meet Java Web Start
The upcoming Consumer JRE brings Java Web Start technology to applets, allowing for more control and functionality for applet-based applications.
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Defining RIA, Web 2.0, and AJAX
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.
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Silverlight 2 Unit Test Framework
Microsoft has released an updated version of the Microsoft.Silverlight. Testing framework. This framework allows developers to create unit tests covering Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 projects.
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Comparing GUI Patterns in PureMVC and Cairngorm
On June 9, 2008 Per Olesen, a seasoned Java developer, published a blog post on Tech Per to comparing the two most popular Flex frameworks, PureMVC and Cairngorm, in particular with respect to usability and how they apply patterns of GUI architecture.
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Grizzly and the New Atmosphere Comet Framework: Q&A with Project Lead Jean-Francois Arcand
The Grizzly framework is used in multiples products like GlassFish, Sailfin, RESTlet, OpenESB and many more, where it enables developers to write scalable server applications, by leveraging the Java New I/O API (NIO). Atmosphere, an evolution of Grizzly, is a POJO based framework that aims to bring Comet to the masses. Jean-Francois talks to InfoQ about this new development.
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OpenFlux Component Framework for Flex
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
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Presentation: Mark Smith on Exploring Silverlight
Mark Smith of DevelopMentor explores Silverlight 2.0 in this presentation from QCon San Francisco.
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Overview of the Curl Enterprise RIA Platform
In this post, InfoQ.com discusses the platform with Curl, Inc. VP of Developer Relations Richard Monson-Haefel. Curl is a platform for building Enterprise RIA applications. Monson-Haefel covers the Curl programming language, IDE, and client side runtime. In addition, he highlights why you might consider using Curl over Adobe AIR and Flex when building RIA’s for the enterprise.
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Mate Flex Framework Alpha in Spotlight
Mate is gaining a lot of attention among the Flex community. Mate is a tag-based Flex framework created by AsFusion. Although it has been used internally at AsFusion for a long time, the Alpha version was just released recently.
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ActionScript Framework JumpShip 3.1 Released with Extensive Ruby on Rails Support
JumpShip, version 3.1, the most recent addition to open-source Flex and ActionScript rich Internet applications (RIA) was released on May 21, 2008. As part of our efforts to stay abreast of RIA development frameworks, InfoQ spoke with Jamie Scanlon, the creator of JumpShip Framework.
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InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay
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.
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Article: An Introduction to BlazeDS
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.
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Does Curl Outperform Flex 3?
In its most recent bid to establish itself at the forefront of RIA competitors, Curl, Inc. announced the results of a performance benchmark test of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, Version 6.0, and Adobe Flex 3, showing that the Curl language outperforms ActionScript 3, the programming language of the Adobe Flash Player runtime, by a factor of 8 to 10.
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Google App Engine Load Test Result
The result of the Google Web Toolkit on Google App Engine load test: The load was 10 reqs/sec for an hour, and 35 reqs/sec at peak. The result? No sweat.