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 [...]

Digging into Custom Metadata Tag in Flex and ActionScript

The basic lineaments of Flex are tag based programming and use of metadata injection. Several times we used metadata tags in our Flex application and most of us are very familiar with Flex SDK defined metadata i.e. [Bindable], [Event], [Effect] and many more. All these are assigned and SDK defined metadata tags, apart from this [...]

A closer look of mx_internal namespace

ActionScript 3 is an Object Oriented Programming language, and here access modifiers are used for handling declaration visibility. The common access modifiers in Object Oriented Programming are Public, Private and Protected, apart from this in AS3 new access modifier namespace is introduced. This is used when we want more control over who can access class [...]

Valid Data Provider for spark List component

In the course of migration from Flex3 project to Flex4 usually we faced common TypeError at runtime. These error are generally a type coercion failed error. The simple usecase of this is we are converting <mx:List> component to <s:List> component. Here we have an inline xml object for “imgList” and binding it to a <mx:List> [...]

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 [...]