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Rich Internet Applications Project Portal
RIAs combine the flexibility, responsiveness, and ease of use of desktop applications with the broad reach of the web. Check out these RIA projects.
Spry framework for Ajax Developers
The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library that provides easy-to-use yet powerful Ajax functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for users.
In Adobe Labs: Ajax Data Services
Ajax Data Services is a JavaScript library that lets Ajax developers access the messaging and data management capabilities of Flex Data Services directly from JavaScript.
White Paper
Creating Rich Internet Applications with the Adobe Technology Platform
Articles
Introducing Adobe AIR for Ajax developers
Discover exciting new development options for building desktop applications.
Building a simple interaction between Flex and JavaScript using the External Interface API
Create multiple component web applications and use JavaScript as the glue to hold them together.
Recreating MapCache on Adobe AIR
Find out how to take an HTML-based web app to the desktop and how to use local file IO in Adobe AIR.
Introducing the Spry framework for Ajax
Get up to speed fast on the Adobe Spry framework for Ajax with these Adobe Captivate simulations.
Working with Flex and PHP in Eclipse
Set up Eclipse for combined Flex and PHP projects and reap the benefit of coding in both languages.
Easy rich Internet applications with ColdFusion 8
Step-by-step instructions guide you through building your first RIA, a simple user manager application.
Adding Ajax components to Dreamweaver projects
Use Nitobi's Dreamweaver extensions to add Ajax functionality to your pages.
Tools and Technology
Use Adobe tools, clients, frameworks, servers, and services as a complete solution for building RIAs, or use them in combination with other familiar web technologies.
Blog Posts
Video: Flex Effects and Skinning
BlazeBench: Why you want AMF and BlazeDS
Need a QuickFix? Try Google App Engine, Adobe AIR, and Flex
Flex to Java Servlet File Upload
JavaFX represents a significant shift in the way Sun engages with the Java product market. Rather than focusing solely on the underlying technology, Sun is looking to provide a complete solution for an individual market. With the 1.0 release imminent InfoQ takes a look at the platform and talks to Sun Staff Engineer Joshua Marinacci about the upcoming release.
Chet Haase of Adobe Systems, who previously worked at Sun on the JavaFX team, shared his comparisons of JavaFX and Adobe Flex on the Yahoo FlexCoder group.
Adobe's annual MAX conference kicked off in San Francisco yesterday. The keynote covered a wide variety of themes including cloud/client computing, RIA's in the enterprise, and creating a consistent platform across a variety of devices (computers, televisions, mobile, etc).
Grails and Flex both have significant advantages in different parts of the software stack. In this new article you will learn how they can be combined to take advantage of each's strengths. Topics covered include component communication, data transfer, and JMS integration.
Platforms need interoperability. In this article Flex interoperability with JSON and XML is explored. The article including mapping of XML to chart and grid components using the E4X library. It also demonstrates using the as3core library to decode JSON messages.
In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development.
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, AIR, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applications with search engines and built-in browser functionality.
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rajeev Dayal discusses building applications with GWT and Google Gears. Topics discussed include an overview of GWT, integrating GWT with other frameworks, GWT 1.4 features, developing large GWT applications, integrating GWT and Google Gears, the architecture of a Google Gears application, Google Gears features and the Google Gears API.
In this presentation filmed at QCon, Mark Smith walks through Silverlight 2.0 capabilities. At the time, Microsoft was referring to this version of Silverlight as 1.1 which has been recently revived up to 2.0. Mark discusses migration to version 2.0, the C# code-behind capabilities, support for threads and how to consume web services.
