Next Meeting

August 19, 2008 - Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java

Description

This month's session will provide numerous live coding examples which will teach you how to build RIAs with Flex and Java. Flex is an Open Source RIA development toolkit which can easily be connected to a Java back-end via Web Services or the Open Source BlazeDS product. Come and learn how to build RIAs with Flex and Java.

Speaker

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP representative to JSRs 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90s; then Java and many of its frameworks beginning in the late 90s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java-based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

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• Provide a forum for exchanging information and for brainstorming with other developers on how to successfully implement new Java solutions.
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• Support the needs of both newbies and experts through related Study Groups targeted at Java Certification and Java-OO architectural issues.
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