Posted by: arunbluebrain on: December 7, 2008
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 assumes that the reader has a basic understanding of the Flex language.
Unlike a classic web application (by classic I mean pre AJAX) where the pages are generated on the [...]
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: December 7, 2008
What is KapInspect?
KapInspect is a free debugging and introspection tool that will help Flex and AS3 developers to inspect their applications at runtime. Its main features are: Display list hierarchical browsing for applications as well as for popups.
Dynamic display list tree, reacting to add and remove children on your application, and always displaying its current state.
Capture [...]
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: December 7, 2008
Text Layout Framework for Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR® 1.5. The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be [...]
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: December 7, 2008
Flash Media Server 3.5 , Includes Dynamic Streaming, DVR and Apache
Adobe announced the next version of Flash Media Server, FMS 3.5.
This new versions adds several new features, most of which are video and delivery enhancements. The two most remarkable additions are a feature called Dynamic Streaming and a DVR-like functions that enables users to pause [...]
Posted by: arunbluebrain on: December 7, 2008
In conjunction with Microsoft, the French firm Soyatec is developing a Silverlight development environment for Eclipse. Soyatec, an Eclipse Foundation member, is known for its eFace product, a technology that combines XAML/WPF and Java.
Soyatec’s project, eclipse4SL, focuses heavily on interoperability between Java-based server and Silverlight applications. Communication is done via the usual mix of SOAP, [...]