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LCDS 3 Becomes Less Affordable 2 years ago

A month ago I wrote a blog titled “The RoadMap for Adobe LCDS 3”.  I was so naïve suggesting cutting the prices for LCDS licenses! The inexpensive ($6K per CPU) departmental license is discontinued. LCDS Express edition is gone. Get ready to pay around $30K per CPU for Enterprise LCDS 3 license.  …
keywords adobe, blog, clear toolkit, cpu, enterprise, express, flex, roadmap

Unleashing the power of Flex,BlazeDS, and Java applications 2 years ago

First of all, Flex and BlazeDS are open sourced and free, which is important for many IT shops even those from filthy rich Wall Street companies. Typically, an enterprise IT group has a limited budget, and even though a more advanced LiveCycle Data Services component offers you more options and …
keywords blazeds, budget, flex, java applications, power flex, scalability, sourced, wall street

Using Custom Type Marshallers in BlazeDS 2 years ago

In my previous post I pointed to the BlazeDS classes that need to be replaced in order to prevent ActionScript Number.NaN from turning into Long or Integer zeroes on the MessageBroker side. The recommendation boiled down to re-jaring flex-messaging-core.jar or placing the modified classes …
keywords application server, blazeds, classpath, data management, data services, flex, nan, serialization

Prevent Flex numeric nulls from turning to zeros in BlazeDS 2 years ago

This question we get on almost every new client project: “We’re struggling with handling of null values for numeric data types in Flex/Java projects. Every time there’s an update, we end up replacing the original nulls with zeros when the user didn’t actually change that value.  Have you …
keywords blazeds, flex, flex java, java projects, null values, nulls, serialization, silver bullet, zeros

Master Class on Adobe Flex in Brussels and more 2 years ago

After teaching our popular advanced Flex master class in New York, Boston, Toronto, London, and Moscow we are hitting the beer capital of the world: Brussels, Belgium. This class is scheduled for the first days of March, and we hope that Flex 4 will be officially released by this date. Our book …
keywords adobe, advanced flex training, air, brussels belgium, enterprise development, flex, london, moscow, toronto

The Roadmap for Adobe LCDS 3? 2 years ago

I had a dream. I had a dream that Adobe’s CTO gave me a call saying, “Yakov, can you help us with writing a roadmap for LiveCycle Data Services for 2010?” I said, “Piece of cake, Kevin. Just give me a half an hour”. This is what I came out with. 1.    Give a serious bonus to [...]
keywords adobe, bonus, cto, flex, half an hour, lcds, livecycle data services, piece of cake, roadmap, yakov

New knowledge exchange for Flex/Flash/AIR developers 2 years ago

There are about 250K developers working with Flex and AIR. If you add an army of ActionScript developers, this number will grow substantially. Where do you go if you have a technical issue while developing RIA? As of today, there no one place to ask questions and get answers.  A respected forum …
keywords army, flash developers, flex, flexcoders, ria

I’m Cairngorm!?? 2 years ago

First, let me ask Java developers a question. Imagine that one day you wake up and read the following announcement, “As of today, Spring framework is the foundation for delivering of successful J2EE projects. In contrast to earlier versions, many parts apply across frameworks. So, if you are …
keywords cairngorm, flex, frameworks, java developers, jsf, spring framework, tapestry

Farata Systems offers enterprise support for BlazeDS 2 years ago

Recently, Adobe decided to stop offering enterprise support for BlazeDS. Here’s an extract from BlazeDS FAQ http://bit.ly/17uzhn: “Does Adobe provide enterprise support for BlazeDS? We have seen tremendous adoption growth with BlazeDS. However, feedback suggests that the support offerings did not …
keywords adobe, adoption, blazeds, feedback, flex

Upcoming Flex conferences 2 years ago

At this point I’m working on a couple of new presentations for a bunch of upcoming conferences and  seminars and  that will take place in Flex community world wide.While in the past, I was trying to create cool presentations, now I wantbe even cooler and… deliver a booring one. This …
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