O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Here's a quick tip for working with real time data in Flex applications (in particular Blaze Data Services and LiveCycle Data Services). LCDS isn't new by any means, but not everyone uses it on a daily basis. Here are a few ways that you can push real-time data between the server and client applications.

Farata Systems has open sourced Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java. The latest builds and the source code of Clear Toolkit 3.1 are located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit/ . The current documentation, demos, user...

One of the main selling points of Adobe AIR is its ability to support occasionally connected applications. Imagine a salesman on the road working with an application without having a network connection. As an example, this can be a salesman of a pharmaceutical company visits medical offices offering their new pills called Xyzin.

Now that Adobe has announced that it will publish the RTMP specification for rich media streaming, how long before the various Flex Data Services open source projects like BlazeDS, GraniteDS and Pimento support RTMP channels? _______________________________ Mike Slinn Independent full-service...

Flex Based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) by definition typically require server access to provide the information resources and repository. When jumping into the server side topics, are you confused and overwhelmed by the choice of server platforms, networking protocols, and messaging formats such as REST (XML), SOAP, and Adobe’s AMF? In this article I work to alleviate those fears and confusions about remote servers and messaging with the Flex client. This article provides a review of these alternatives along with an analysis of example remote messaging code utilizing the AMF 3 protocol.