Pot of Gold at the Flex / AIR Jam

This week I have been in Crested Butte, Colorado at the Flex / AIR Jam. It’s been a great event for everyone. Those new to Flex have learned a ton and those with more experience have been able to extend their knowledge by working on real projects. Over the past two days I’ve made considerable progress on two different projects. One project is the new version of the Census – RIA Benchmark app. I’ll be posting the new version with GZip support and a new Laszlo test tomorrow. The other project I’ve been working on is an enterprise Flex application framework kinda like a portal. This project is named “Anvil”. The goals of Anvil are to support large Flex application deployment scenarios, illustrate best practices for application partitioning, and be a reusable open source framework for portal-like applications. I’ll be publishing more info on Anvil in the next few weeks.

Today we had a nice surprise. We were heads down coding and Bruce told us to go outside to look for a rainbow because it was sunny and raining. We walked outside to see an amazing rainbow that was brighter than any I have ever seen. A few of us decided to walk down the street to get a better view. I happened to find a nice flower pot which the rainbow seemed to end in… Like a pot of gold! I hope that many more of you will be able to find another pot of gold with us at the next Flex Jam! :)

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  • Ben Geyer

    Very nice!

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Look awesome Mike!

    =Ryan

  • Dipock

    Flowers rainbows..?….you’re spending too much time in SF ……delightful…

  • Dave Zaffery

    Make’s me wish I lived in Colorado! Awesome thanks!

  • Anvil Portal….I can’t get it to work

    I am trying to deploy the anvilPortal.war. I checked the JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME variables and deployed the anvilPortal in my webApps directory. I am using the blaze version of tomcat. I now have an anvilPortal folder in my webapps however when I go to http://localhost:8400/anvilPortal/anvilPortal.swf I am told the file is not there. Note that my tomcat is set up on port 8400. Any suggestions?

    Thanks

  • http://www.jamesward.org James Ward

    Hi,

    It’s possible that the WAR file did not deploy correctly. Did you see any errors in the Tomcat console?

    -James

  • http://anvilPortal ram

    Facing same problem as above.. anvilPortal is deployed on Tomcat 7 – no error is being thrown. List Applications in Tomcat is showing anvilPortal as running.. but it throws error when I tried to open the application

    http://localhost:8099/anvilPortal/
    “description The requested resource (/anvilPortal/) is not available.”

    • http://www.jamesward.com James Ward

      Sounds like there was an error starting the server. Check your Tomcat logs.

      • http://anvilPortal ram

        Hi… below is the Tomcat log…. still not able to access the application…

        getting the same error…”The requested resource (/anvilPortal/) is not available.”

        Mar 31, 2011 2:12:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
        Mar 31, 2011 2:12:04 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
        Mar 31, 2011 2:12:04 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
        Mar 31, 2011 2:26:33 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: SessionListener: contextDestroyed()
        Mar 31, 2011 2:26:33 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: ContextListener: contextDestroyed()
        Mar 31, 2011 2:26:33 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext
        Mar 31, 2011 2:26:51 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
        Mar 31, 2011 2:26:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
        Mar 31, 2011 2:26:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
        Mar 31, 2011 2:34:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext
        Mar 31, 2011 2:34:55 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
        INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext

        • http://www.jamesward.com James Ward

          Looks ok. Maybe the application context is not /anvilPortal but / or something else.

  • http://anvilPortal ram

    thanks for the quick reply James.. pls help me in this regard…