What is Adobe Flex?
Adobe Flex is a RIA toolkit leveraging the Flash platform. The following parts make up Adobe Flex:
- SDK: The Software Development Kit contains the compiler, utilities, classlibrary, sourcecode and documentation. The SDK is similar to the Java JDK, and most parts are released as Open Source.
- Flash Player: This is the runtime environment. The player comes in two flavours: a ‘common’ player (the one everyone has on their computer) and a Debug player. The latter shows errors which are simply ignored by the regular player.
- Flex Builder: This is the Eclipse-based IDE. This part of Flex is not free, however, it is highly recomended to use. There are two editions: a Professional edition (costs $249,-) and a Professional edition (costs $699,-) which has additional profilers and charting components.
- BlazeDS: The backend webservice framework. This Java framework leverages several open and proprietary Flash protocols to support remoting between client and server. BlazeDS is Open Source, and is basically a subset of LiveCycleDS.
- LiveCycleDS: the full-fledged remoting solution for Adobe Flex. This one adds HTTP Push technology to update clients real-time without the need for polling (in contrast with BlazeDS).
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November 10th, 2008 | Category: English, Flex, Java, RIA | Leave a comment
Zimbra is on my radar ever since I saw the first glimpse of their webmail application, already a few years ago. Recently I started my own business, registered my personal internet domain(s) and installed a Mac Mini for my server needs. An excellent opportunity to install Zimbra to serve my mail and calendars!
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October 4th, 2008 | Category: English, Howto, Mac OS X, Zimbra | Leave a comment
The market for RIA toolkits is changing quickly – like three years ago we didn’t even know what it was, right now we are slapped around the ears with terms like Rich Content, Widgets, Realtime Ajax communication, Single-Page Interfaces and whatnot. A few years ago we were quite satisfied with Apache Struts and a bit fiddling with HTML, CSS and Javascript, now we are spoiled by the choices we have in all kinds of Web-UI frameworks, not knowing which one to choose for the problem at hand.
For this post we will make the case for RIA technology and why you should use it. In a following post we will discuss several RIA toolkits which are specifically suited for Java developers.
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September 5th, 2008 | Category: English, Java, RIA | Leave a comment
WordPress is supposed to be so easy to install, that this guide is not necessary at all – so why bother?
Sure, an initial setup doesn’t take more than 15 minutes to complete, no problem. However, if you configure your Permalinks to look more SEO-friendly (like, http://yoursite.com/blog/2008/08/20/my-posting/ instead of the default http://yoursite.com/?p=123) your WordPress setup could fail you.
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August 21st, 2008 | Category: Apache, English, Howto, Mac OS X, SEO, WordPress | Comments (5)
Hello guys & gals, welcome to my blog!
Here I will post stuff about my life in general, about photography and (IT) technology. I hope you’ll like it!
Most posts will probably be published in english, and some in dutch.
Always feel free to post your comments!
Cheers,
Bart Guijt
August 19th, 2008 | Category: English | Leave a comment
