Adobe Flex now Apache Flex

End of the last year (Nov – 2011) Adobe planed to donate Flex to Apache foundation and now Flex is officially accepted by Apache Software Foundation(ASF). For more info on this check the mail thread conversation on voting at Apache – http://markmail.org/message/7q22pdviyxvkwbf5. This year 2012 is the first year of Flex to live outside Adobe [...]

Flex SDK 4.6

You must be knowing that Adobe has released Flex SDK 4.6. Thanks to Adobe Flex SDK team to keep enhancing the SDK. This release of SDK is majorly focus on mobile and tablet apps development. Flex SDK 4.6 bundled with new mobile optimized Spark components. In mobile or tablet apps development major area of consideration [...]

Adobe Flash Player and its future

Flash is travelled very long distance in last decade, from Macromedia Flash to Adobe Flash. This Flash word is always in tech buzz. Initially it was popular in animator group then gradually attracted the attention of application developers and became a de-facto for RIA applications. Flash is always preferable for developing richest content and deployed [...]

Spring + BlazeDS Integration API for Flex based Enterprise Apps

In my last project assignment I found Spring BlazeDS Integration API is very fruitful. It really helps developer to focus on only business implementation of application and forget about backend server level configuration. Spring BlazeDS Integration is a top-level Spring project, and a component of the complete Spring Web stack. This project’s purpose is to [...]

ABC of Swiz Framework

I am currently looking into a Flex application framework for my upcoming Flex Enterprise project. In Flex application development Cairngorm and PureMVC framework is a de facto standards. For my project we are looking into a possibility to introduced Swiz framework for application architecture. Swiz official website stated this as “The brutally simple micro-architecture for [...]

FluidHTML and Rich Internet Application

FluidHTML is a new markup language that greatly expands the application of rich media on the web. Rich Internet Applications are growing rapidly and globally. Yet the most common rich media languages are hard to learn and use and are not search engine indexable. FHTML, Inc., was founded in March of 2009 to tackle this [...]

JavaFX: A promising RIA technology lost somewhere

As a RIA specialist I have been doing client side development professionally over the last six years or so, in a variety of UI toolkits and libraries that spanned Ajax, Adobe Flex, HTML5, Swing, Applet and Silverlight. During this period I have been in touch with different RIA technology, JavaFX being one of them. Before [...]

Flash on iOS devices

Adobe has finally release a new tool called Wallaby, that will convert Flash files to HTML5 so they can run on Apple devices like the iPad and iPhone. This tool is basically help online advertisers and websites who have alreaduy made a big investment in Flash and don’t want to loose the iOS market. Wallaby [...]

Rich Internet Application: A success mantra of Web2.0

Today with Web2.0, success of Facebook, Gmail, Google Docs and other promising web applications prove that the without Rich Internet Application can’t be achievable this success. RIA is one of the core driving part of Web2.0 experience. Rich user interface developer today are more focused on creating appealing applications that hypnotize the end users and [...]