Adobe’s Flex team seems inclined to move away from clean design.
Flex framework’s current stable version is 3.x and the Flex team at Adobe
is actively working on getting the version 4.x ready this year. At this time,
the core SDK of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo, is evolving through an open source
process. From peeking into its initial version, it looks promising as there
are serious attempts to create a clean separation of behavior and
presentation in the components, apart from the tons of nifty enhancements
throughout the framework. (I promise to write about some of the forthcoming
features soon)
However, one design decision in the midst of all this goodness seems rather
odd and alarming. The Flex team is proposing to prefix Gumbo component names
with the letters “Fx”. Lets... (more)
I am organizing a session on “Rich Finance Widgets” this coming Monday.
“Rich Finance Widgets” are revolutionizing the way we access and
distribute financial information and make trading and investment decisions.
Come and join me this Monday May 4, 2009 at 10.00am EDT and learn more.
Event details: Starts: Monday May 04, 2009, 10:00AM Ends: Monday May 04,
2009, 10:45PM Event Type: Training... (more)
Speaking on integrating Java and RIA at the Princeton Java Users Group
tomorrow (March 25, 2009). The session talks about the pull and push based
models for communication between a Java server and a rich web application.
The remoting and messaging infrastructure within BlazeDS and both Flex and
JavaScript based front-ends are considered in the discussion. This session
focuses on the view... (more)
Election for JCP EC members is in progress and by next week a new committee
will be in place. So it’s an important time to understand where the JCP
stands and what the EC members can possibly do to make things better for the
JCP and the Java community.
Simply stated, JCP is a member driven organization to create standards for
the Java language and the platform. Ideally, it intends to be ... (more)
Flex Camp Chicago 2009 starts my speaking engagements for the year. Last
year I had around 20 engagements and so by the time it was December, I had
decided to take holidays fairly seriously. I opted out of anything that had
to do with a conference in the last month and did not travel at all. Now that
the New Year has begun a couple of weeks back, its time to get back to mingle
and meet ... (more)