Cornel Creanga

Oracle press release - JavaFX and Winter Games

cornel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:35:09 +0000

A former colleague of mine pointed me to this link - the Vancouver Organizing Committee is using JavaFX for an application used to display the historic results. The application looks ok, however its still a very small step for JavaFX - I would like to see some large data centric application.

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Tour de LiveCycle ES2

cornel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:20:37 +0000

Tour de LiveCycle has been updated in order to include the newly released version of Livecycle ES2. It is a separate AIR application having over 1000 pages of content, and probably the best way for getting a feel what LiveCycle ES2 is (and what is new compared to LiveCycle ES).

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Understanding the Market for Software Platforms

cornel — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:16:59 +0000

Jeff Vroom, the former BlazeDS & LiveCycle architect wrote an interesting article - Understanding the Market for Software Platforms. As a former TopLink user I can make a parallel between his examples and the comparison between Hibernate/TopLink. The former one was on the market for several years before of Hibernate and it was a very powerful ORM framework, however it lost the battle because the company acquiring it had no offer for the horizontal market - that means only a very low number of developers were using it, no books, very few articles and learning materials, and slower evolution in comparison with the Hibernate framework.

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Survey - Flash Builder roadmap

cornel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:56:48 +0000

Andrew Shorten, the new Flash Builder product manager, created a survey where you can express what do you want for the future version of the product. It takes 15 minutes and you can win some gadget if you are from USA or Canada. I think that if you are using Flash Builder you should fill in the survey - it is taken seriously, and there a lot of things to improve in this product.

The link for the survey is here.

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LCDS, ManagedObjectProxy and some reserved keywords

cornel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:34:01 +0000

Yesterday I struggled for several hours looking in the Livecycle Data Services code in order to investigate the following error message:TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert “ZGUID” to QName. It was not easy but in the end I understood that it is an issue related to property collision inside of the ManagedObjectProxy class. The ManagedObjectProxy instance is adding all the properties from the serialized objects into it. However if the name of one of your properties already exists in the ManagedObjectProxy instance then this process will fail. The following properties already exist (inherited from ObjectProxy):

dispatcher : EventDispatcher
notifiers : Object
object : Object
propertyList : Array
proxyClass : Class
type : QName
uid:String

For the “type” property a fix was provided in Livecycle Data Services 3, but not for the others. So if you design your domain object and you plan to use Livecycle Data Services it’s a good idea to not use this reserved keywords as names for your properties.

The problem appears only if you like to use the proxy approach (not having the corresponding AS class included in the client SWF).

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E-seminar about Zend framework and Flash

cornel — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:33:12 +0000

My colleague Mihai Corlan and Roy Ganor from Zend are going to have an e-seminar about building Flash/PHP applications. They are going to cover Adobe Flex framework, Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder and Zend Studio. If you are a PHP developer building Flex applications it should bring some value. For registration you can go here.

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Flex Builder Linux Alpha 5 release

cornel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:01:19 +0000

A new version of Flex Builder for Linux can be downloaded from Adobe Labs. No new features, it is just a version to extend the expiration date.

Also, Linux fans can check this link http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/tag/flex/- IntelliJ has a Flex plugin which is going to be improved for the version 9. Good news for IDEA fans.

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Netflix Values Presentation

cornel — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:52:44 +0000

A colleague of mine sent me this link from TechCrunch related to an internal Netflix presentation. It’s really interesting and I highly recommand to spend some time reading the slides (and to pass it to your manager). I’m not sure if this works for a larger company but at the first glance it looks like the perfect job - if you like both responsibility and autonomy.

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Flex Data Services, Hibernate and Eclipse - Mike Slinn book

cornel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:27:38 +0000

A lot of books about Flash, Flex, ActionScript and Java are available on the market and some of them are really good. However there are still very few books related to Flex and Java integration - best practices, frameworks, performance issues, patterns and anti patterns. Mike’s book fills a gap here, in talking primarily about the two Adobe products: BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services. I’ve met few people who really know well these products well, and I think that this book can help people get a better understanding. Flex and the other RIA technologies should improve not only the user experience/interaction but also the developers life - making it much easier with - increased productivity, no more hacks and no more stateless clients. For that you need a strong platform both on the client and server side and LiveCycle Data Services can fulfill that.

The book comes with a tool written in Flash that can help you edit configuration files visually. Personally I would like to see an Eclipse plugin also - but considering that the tools for integrating Flash Player with Eclipse already exist I guess it’s possible in future.

The book is in early release - it can be ordered here.

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Flex Camp - Cluj Napoca

cornel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:18:58 +0000

Transylvania Flex Group is organizing a Flex Camp in Cluj Napoca on 15 October. You can see the full agenda and register here.

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