Building Cross-Device Apps with Flex and Spring

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Today, users want apps in the browser, on their desktop, phone, tablet, and TV. Reusing code across all of these devices is now crucial for developers. By combining Flex for the UI with Spring and Hibernate for the back-end, developers can build apps that work on a variety of devices including PCs, Android phones / tablets, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, iPhones, and iPads. This session will walk developers through the steps for creating these cross-device apps with Flex and Java.

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Building Cross-Device Apps with Flex and Spring

1. Building Cross-Device Apps with Flex and Spring@_JamesWard

2. Native Apps and Web Apps - GALORE! Native App Native App Native App Native App Web App Web App Desktop OSs Desktop Browsers Android Blackberry iOS Mobile Browsers

3. One Tool, One Language, One Codebase Any Platform Flex Application AIR Flash Player Goal of the Flash Platform Desktop OSs Desktop Browsers Android Blackberry iOS Mobile Browsers

4. Flash Platform - A complete system for web innovation

6. Empower Flash developers to deploy applications in app catalogs

7. Leverage desktop AIR app ecosystem

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10. Deploying AIR Mobile Applications App.apk Android Market Android Device App.air App.ipk iTunes App Store iOS Device App.bar BlackBerry App World RIM Device

11. How Flex Works Adobe AIR RTMP/S AMF/S HTTP/S SOAP .swf .swf Flex Builder IDE Browser MXML and ActionScript Flash Player Flex SDK MXML ActionScript Flex Class Library Web Server Compile XML/HTTP REST SOAP Web Services J2EE Application Server BlazeDS or LC Data Services Existing Applications and Infrastructure

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13. Flex with Java via Text-based Serialization 10 App Server XML, JSON, etc (RESTful / SOAP) Web Service Client

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18. 15 Demo Simple Remoting

19. Flex with Java via Messaging 16 Messaging System X Adapter X JMS Provider JMS Adapter Messaging System Y Adapter Y App Server BlazeDS Message Service Endpoint AMF Publisher Subscriber

20. 17 Demo Simple Messaging

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