Monthly Archives: January 2008

I did a write-up yesterday on InfoQ.com about the OS integration limitations of the AIR platform. Mike Chambers of Adobe offered up some ideas on how to work around this issue, which seem to start a flame war with Scott Barnes of Microsoft. Regardless of the religious war, I do believe this is a significant [...] Continue reading →

 
This weekend, I finished up an article on building a Flex Messaging application using the BEA Workshop Studio (Flex Bundle) IDE.  The IDE is Eclipse based and very familiar to a Java developer like myself.  You can check out the article on BEA’s Dev2Dev site: http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2008/01/flex-messaging-workshop.html.
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I have been playing a bit with BlazeDS, the new open source release of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services. Overall, it looks good to me, as the open source release has all the features I need. Unfortunately, I stumbled onto the fact that Flex 2 SDK doesn’t work with the BlazeDS messaging features, and [...] Continue reading →

I just published a piece on InfoQ.com about the Flash Player being proprietary. I personally find this to be a funny issue. It really seems like a non-issue to me, as the plug-in has a long history of being improved and available. It seems unlikely that Adobe would just rip it away. I am hoping [...] Continue reading →

I have been writing for InfoQ.com for about 6 months now. I really enjoy learning about new things and attempting to capture the important details for others.
I just finished an interview piece with Chet Hasse on JavaFX. It was fun to broaden my perception on the framework. After pulling together his responses, I [...] Continue reading →

Cay Horstmann posted a great blog today on the current state of Java:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2008/01/dinosaurs_can_t_1.html
‘Why is it that Sun can’t give me a decent web framework? Is it a shortcoming of the Java language? Or crummy API design? Rails uses the metaobject protocol to good effect in Active Record, but as it turns out, that isn’t [...] Continue reading →