Show Notes
Episode: Interview with James Ward of Adobe on Flex, AIR and RIA Development
Published: 2008-08-28
James Ward's blog and useful information is located at www.jamesward.com. The Flex Show Episode 50 is a good listen.
Here are some helpful links to information brought up during the interview. Make sure to visit James Ward's blog site at www.jamesward.com, as he has lots of helpful tips on Flex development on his site.
- The Census Benchmark App - James has been working on this for a while. It is a benchmarking application comparing various RIA / AJAX technologies and speed of operations like sorting, table management, etc... An interesting way to see relative performance metrics.
- Flex Home - The main Flex developer site
- Adobe Open Source - James mentioned this site a lot. This is where Adobe places all of its' open-sourced technologies.
- Flex Builder - the for-pay, eclipse-based IDE for Flex development.
- Flex SDK - The open source, freely available SDK.
- The ShockWave File Format - Adobe has fully documented the SWF file format.
- The Open Screen Project - a consortium including Adobe that wants to push Flash onto mobile devices by opening up the standards and exposing the flash player. More info at the FAQ
- Gnash an open-source flash movie player mentioned in the show (currently not using the open screen initiative formats).
- AMF, the Actionscript Message Format - Read up on this, as Flex supports AMF for fast transfer of data between client and server.
- BlazeDS - A server-side Java remoting technology using AMF and other technologies.
- LiveCycle ES - a commercial, J2EE-based server platform for Flex development and more from Adobe.
- FXStruts - the FXStruts Library allows Struts developers to expose java objects within a Struts application using AMF.
