This Thursday night you can meet the Flex team at the SF Adobe office. Come and hang out with the people who actually write classes like UIComponent (8406 lines), Container (5055 lines), and DataGrid (4884 lines). And you can also meet people who have never written an AS class longer than 100 lines – like me! Get all the details and RSVP:
http://flexteam.eventbrite.com/
Also coming up February 7th I am presenting on Sexy Web Apps with Java, Mozilla Tamarin, and Flex in Mountain View.
I hope I will get to see many of you at these events. If you don’t live in the Bay Area then please talk to your local Java User Group (or other SIG) about having me come present on Flex. Sorry we can’t take “Meet the Flex Team” on the road. :)
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Hello James,
Thanks for the post. I will definitely see you this thursday in SF. It will be a good opportunity to see the “crack” team behind this cool flexy craze.
On s side track (although a very urgent need of mine) please refer to the following post that you posted sometime back. I am seriously planning a flex application on JBOSS jBPM. I do have a student license for flex builder. I just would like to know whether you completed the simple flex interface to JBPM that you are talking about here. Or could you point me to any example code with Flex/JBPM. Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Best, Molmol
By jlward4 Posted: Thu Feb 9, 2006 02:48 AM Post subject: Re: Flex 2 based Webmail
With Flex 2, you can use the free sdk and framework to compile the webmail application into a swf (the format Flash player understands). This swf can be distibuted without restriction. However, for developers the sdk and framework are not redistributable, so developers will have to download the sdk & framework and plop it into a lib dir somewhere in their JBMS source tree.
As far as not being open source, Adobe is distributing the framework code, so if we find bugs in components, then we can fix them ourselves. And since I am on the Flex team at Adobe, I should be able to help get any other bugs fixed. (disclaimer below)
As far as tools go… My preferred IDE is vim anyways. So unless developers want to purchase the Flex Builder Eclipse Plugin, they will not need to spend any money.
I will start working on a really simple interface design to get the process rolling.
-James
*** Disclaimer: I totally did not intend on turning this into yet another work related project… I just have genuine interest in this project, whether the webmail app uses jsf, ajax, laszlo, whatever. If Flex is not the best fit that’s fine.
Hi Molmol,
That post was actually about the JBoss Mail Server. I have done some work on their Webmail client. It is now called the Meldware Communications Suite, and you can find it at:
http://www.buni.org
As far as jBPM, that would be a cool Flex project! I’ll see if I can prototype something.
See you Thursday!
James,
I am yet to look at Tamarin, can we do something useful as of today? What exactly you are planning to do with Mozilla Tamarin? I was wondering, if I can hook the engine on our server-side? And I also think, Flash Media Server would have it has scripting-engine in next version?
Can you please let us know, what did you do using Mozilla Tamarin in the session on Thursday?
Hi Abdul,
Tamarin is the basis for Flash’s Virtual Machine and JIT Compiler. So when you use Flash 9 today, you are using Tamarin. When you use JavaScript in Firefox 3 in the future, you will be using Tamarin. As of today, there isn’t a direct way of using Tamarin without either of those runtimes wrapped around it. But it’s Open Source so hopefully people start doing more interesting things with it.
-James
Do you have any progress / update on the flex jbpm project? If you have some work that can be shared which others can take it further, please let me know.
Hi Sandeep,
Unfortunately I don’t know what the status of that project is.
-James