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A sketch of Adobe Flex Architecture capabilities

I am evaluating Adobe Flex technology to do rich internet applications. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: so in the following I sketched an overview of Flex programming capabilities.

Diagram focuses on how to create a Flash Application (compiling MXML and Actionscript files using the free Flex SDK) and on what kind of interactions a Flex-made application can perform with external systems.

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Some starting (and incomplete) references:

  • Protocols
    • AMF (Action Message Format) used for serializing objects [link]
    • RTMP (Real Time Messaging protocol) used for messaging [link]
  • Project & Products
    • Adobe Flex Data Service (renamed in Adobe Lifecycle Services) [link]
    • Open AMF [link]
    • Red5 Flash Server [link]
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Informal comparison of Java Component Models (Javabeans, EJB 2.x, OSGi)

I made an informal comparison table of three Java component models: JavaBeans, EJB 2.x and OSGi. I considered several point of views without being rigorous on terminology. My goal was to show fundamental features of these component models.

Personally I think that previously used component models (in particular EJB) lack many fundamental features that can help developers keeping their applications mainteneable and easy to develop.

An interesting technology that contains these important characteristics is OSGi which is an interesting enabling technology for designing new systems and applications.

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