Category Archives: LCDS

My Video from MAX 2009 – Introduction to BlazeDS and LCDS

By James Ward | Published: November 4, 2009

Here is the video of my session from MAX 2009 – Introduction to BlazeDS and LCDS. In this session I walk through the basics of connecting Flex applications to BlazeDS and LCDS. Let me know what you think!

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Adobe and Salesforce.com Unite RIA and The Cloud

By James Ward | Published: October 26, 2009

The two major trends transforming software right now are Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Cloud Computing / Software as a Service (SaaS or PaaS). These trends are driven by two needs: Full client capabilities, which allow software to perform optimally and increase usability Easy deployment, which allows developers to focus on business needs instead of building [...]

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My MAX 2009 Sessions

By James Ward | Published: September 1, 2009

MAX 2009 is coming fast! It’s going to be another great event with tons of great speakers and after party fun. Here are my sessions this year: Introduction to BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services Designing for Augmented Reality Building Flex and Adobe AIR Service Clients 2009 Flex and Adobe AIR Boot Camp Also Drunk on Software will be [...]

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Protected Messaging in Flex with BlazeDS and LCDS

By James Ward | Published: July 22, 2009

One of the great things about Flex is how easy it is to set up publish and subscribe messaging using BlazeDS, LCDS, or other various server technologies. Basically a Flex application can be either a Consumer of messages from the server, a Producer of messages to the server, or both. The channels that [...]

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Adobe TV – Data Synchronization with Flex and LCDS

By James Ward | Published: January 27, 2009

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RTMP Spec To Be Opened

By James Ward | Published: January 20, 2009

A little over a year ago Adobe opened the AMF spec. Now Adobe has announced it will be opening the RTMP spec! Wahoo!!! This is big news for Flex developers! For those that don’t know, RTMP is the streaming protocol used for streaming video and audio in Flash Media Server and [...]

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Take the Tour de Flex

By James Ward | Published: November 17, 2008

Over the past few months Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself have been hard at work on a secret project. So today we are proud to announce the new Tour de Flex has just gone live! Tour de Flex showcases the capabilities of Flex, BlazeDS, LCDS, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player (now collectively [...]

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Podcast about Adobe AIR, Flex and BlazeDS / LCDS

By James Ward | Published: August 28, 2008

A podcast I recently did with Chariot Solutions has just been published. Let me know what you think.

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Video: Flex and Java

By James Ward | Published: July 21, 2008

Here is the recording of a presentation I gave at the NLJUG a few weeks ago on Flex and Java. I hope you find this useful. Let me know what you think.

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