Flex & AIR

Where are the RIA "killer apps"?

I've found, over the years, that in almost every successful field of technology there's a "killer app," a category-leader so strong as to...

20 replies - 6973 views - 04/28/09 by kas_thomas in News

Render PDF in Adobe AIR with PDF Scaling

AIR can render PDFs using the HTMLControl as long as the host computer has Acrobat 8 or later installed. I have seen many examples of doing this, just without...

1 replies - 1707 views - 04/27/09 by cgiamett in News

Automatic serialization of ActionScript objects to and from XML

In Flex applications that use a backend server for data manipulation and storage, serializing and transferring the objects from one layer to another is an...

2 replies - 4595 views - 04/23/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

An Introduction to Spring BlazeDS Integration

Last December, SpringSource and Adobe announced a partnership aimed at streamlining the integration between Spring and BlazeDS. This partnership has led to the...

12 replies - 49652 views - 04/02/09 by christophe coenraets in Articles

Bringing data into Flex applications

This article will describe the most common ways to bring data into a Flex application and will present the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It...

0 replies - 5605 views - 04/01/09 by ccreanga in News

Getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta

At Adobe MAX, Adobe announced the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (formerly, code name “Cocomo”) project that you can use to add real-time...

1 replies - 4797 views - 03/23/09 by Ryan Stewart in News

Providing AMF REST Resources in Java

Action Message Format (AMF) is a high-performance web services protocol that was developed and designed especially for Flash applications by Adobe. AMF is...

1 replies - 3623 views - 03/19/09 by stoicflame in Articles

Flex best practices – Part 2: Development practices

Part 1 of this series focused on best practices for setting up your Flex projects. In Part 2, I continue the discussion by outlining best practices to...

0 replies - 15029 views - 03/16/09 by seantheflexguy in News