CFlex - Community Flex. Latest Tips, Articles, and Lessons regarding Macromedia Flex http://www.cflex.net SapphireSteel Software is pleased to announce Amethyst 1.5, a major update to our Flash Platform IDE for Visual Studio. Since the launch of Amethyst in August 2010, we?ve been working closely with many of our customers to add and improve the power and simplicity of Amethyst. The result of this work is released today. Amethyst 1.5 is a significant update which adds mobile development capabilities, new compiler services, support for very large projects and improved integration with IDEs such as Adobe?s Flash Builder and Flash CS5 (or CS4/CS3). <p>Amethyst Professional 1.5 is available for $249 USD with a free 60-day Trial. Existing users of Amethyst 1.x may upgrade to this new version at no additional cost.</p> <p>Major New Features of Amethyst 1.5 include... - Mobile development support (Android, iOS, Blackberry) - Improved Flash CS5 integration - Internationalization with switchable ?locales? - Enhanced multi-process (multiple SWFs) debugging - Support for all major versions of Flex (3, 4, 4.5) - Enhanced cross platform .NET/Flash debugging - Improved support for modules and RSLs - Enhanced project importer (imports Flash Builder properties and workspaces) - Visual Studio command line builds supported</p> http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Blog/article/amethyst-1-5-released 2011-06-28 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX To develop rich mobile and Web apps for the enterprise that leverage the power of SAP apps <P> Adobe Systems will integrate the SAP NetWeaver Gateway technology and its Flash Builder 4.5 to develop rich mobile and Web apps for the enterprise that leverage the power of SAP apps. <P> The new integration will allow developers to improve front-end experiences and extend SAP business and consumer processes, providing enterprise customers instant reach to critical business data across an array of devices and platforms, including Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS. <P> Adobe said that its Flash Builder 4.5 software is an Eclipse-based development tool for building expressive mobile, Web and desktop applications using ActionScript and the open source Flex framework. <P> The SAP NetWeaver Gateway, is an open, standards-based framework providing a simple way to interact with SAP apps through any environment or device enabling rapid development of a new class of applications using any development tool. <P> SAP technology and innovation platform senior vice-president Michael Reh said the company&#39;s customers are already realising the benefits of using Adobe Flash Builder and Flex to create rich applications for SAP systems. <P> &#34;The integration of Flash Builder with SAP NetWeaver Gateway will extend the value of SAP offerings within our customer base by making it easier to create a new highly interactive use case with rich, high performance mobile and Web applications,&#34; Reh said. <P> Adobe developer tooling vice-president Ed Rowe said SAP NetWeaver Gateway provides a new level of openness to the core SAP application infrastructure. <P> &#34;As we integrate Flash Builder with SAP NetWeaver Gateway, the power of the SAP platform is compleme http://www.cflex.net/shownewsitem.cfm?NewsID=863 2011-05-24 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Life Underwriting Solution Rules-driven & Interactive <P> Sophisticated business features are stronger than ever in StoneRiver&#39;s LifeSuite automated underwriting system. The new LifeSuite is built with an Adobe Flex-based RIA (Rich Internet Application) interface, providing an adaptable user experience with tabbed access, user preferences and data filtering. With the ability to personalize screen appearances and data views for clean, clients experience efficient and consistent decision making information flow. <P> In addition to the many new features for streamlined navigation, clients may customize their user interface based on user roles, responsibilities and preferences. Also featured are enhanced user controls of data filtering and sorting for ease and analyzing case information for faster decisioning. Companies can now also brand the system with their choices of colors and logos and it is capable of supporting multiple companies. <P> &#34;We&#39;re excited to offer LifeSuite with a new look interface and supremely flexible user experience,&#34; stated Gary Anderson, SVP Life Operations. &#34;By extending the superior functionality our clients appreciate, the system continues to be the market leader and best of breed underwriting solution for the life and health insurance industry.&#34; <P> LifeSuite continues to be the most comprehensive automated underwriting system that brings the client quality, consistency, and flexibility. It is totally adaptable for any carrier, data aggregator, or underwriting services provider. The new RIA is an innovative layer that is not only aesthetically pleasing to the eye but is built to provide summary views of overall case actions, requirements, and alerts with single click access to the detail data underlying the summaries. The new screen order, tabbing, and other navigational features enhance and support an underwriter&#39;s daily workflow. And with the new ability to have multiple cases open at a time underwriters can multi-task across their entire assigned case load. <P> The advancement of LifeSuite will open up new business and operational opportunities with time-saving features such as interactive real-time or scheduled report creation, support for multiple vendors&#39; prescription history data, enhanced paramedical data support, and advanced evidence matching integration. <P> About StoneRiver, Inc.<BR> StoneRiver delivers the industry&#39;s widest range of technology solutions and services to insurance carriers, encompassing front-office, policy, claim, underwriting, billing, reinsurance, financial and compliance solutions for all major business lines. Life solutions are integrated to span the entire insurance value chain to reduce distribution and operating costs and bring products to market swiftly. From the point-of-sale to policy issuance and claim payment, our individual solutions or integrated solutions are available to provide you complete straight through administration. Hundreds of companies rely on StoneRiver solutions to help them streamline their complex business processes. Visit stoneriver.com for more information. http://www.cflex.net/shownewsitem.cfm?NewsID=862 2011-05-24 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX May 24, 2011 ? SmartBear Software today announced TestComplete 8.5, the latest release of its award-winning automated testing tool. TestComplete 8.5 includes advanced test automation for a vast community of developers working with Adobe Flash Builder, an Eclipse based development tool for rapidly building expressive mobile, web, and desktop applications using ActionScript and the open source Flex framework. This is the first automated testing tool to support the development and deployment of Flex 4.5 applications for the Web. <P> Dave Gruber, Group Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems, said, ?Automated testing is critical to the development of enterprise Flex applications. We are excited to see SmartBear TestComplete 8.5 add support for applications built with Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5, enabling enterprise customers to more rapidly develop and deploy rich Interment applications for the web and mobile platforms.? <P> TestComplete 8.5 accelerates automated functional testing with advanced testing controls for RIAs and seamless integrations with the latest browsers for Web testing, offering: <P> ? Automated testing support for Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 ? TestComplete 8.5 is the first automated testing tool to integrate with Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5, enabling users of the new version of the Adobe Flash Platform to quickly implement functional and regression testing. <P> ? Simpler workflow for testing Silverlight 4 applications ? New to TestComplete 8.5 is ?out of the box? support for Silverlight 4. Tests can be recorded and played back against the original Silverlight application in the browser, without the need to change the code or rebuild, accelerating the testing process and improving test accuracy. <P> ? Automated Web testing using Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4.0 ? TestComplete 8.5 remains at the forefront of Web technologies, introducing support for web testing with the latest versions of the two most popular browsers ? Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4.0. TestComplete 8.5 enables compatibility testing across multiple browser versions to ensure websites work correctly for visitors no matter what version of IE or Firefox they use. <P> Michael Labriola, Senior Consultant at Digital Primates, a consultancy that specializes in Adobe?s Flash Platform, in particular, Flex, said, ?TestComplete reduces the amount of time it takes to test Flex applications and custom components. Using TestComplete we can create more functional tests, in less time, without the frustration of other commercial tools.? <P> For additional details and a full list of enhancements, visit our blog: Quickly Test Adobe Flash and Flex, Silverlight, and Web Applications. http://www.cflex.net/shownewsitem.cfm?NewsID=861 2011-05-24 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Orchestra Designer is an open source project from &#34;Web 2.0 BPM editor&#34; topic of 2009 OW2 Programming Contest. The objective of this project is to build an online workflow designer that generates BPEL processes. Those processes can be accepted by Orchestra, which is an open source BPEL engine released on OW2 platform. The designer is developed on Flex, targeted to non-technical people and provides a more business-oriented functional view of the process than pure BPEL view. Orchestra Designer Project won the 2009 OW2 Open Source Software Competition in May 2009 and established relations with BULL Company, and released on the Trustie Platform as Open Source Project according to the LGPL V3 Standard. By now, it has been the most popular project in the Trustie Platform and with the amount of 6550 downloads (as of September 16, 2010) as the second downloads. The initial developers of this project come from ACT lab of Beihang University (BUAA). The members are Sun Dou,Li Zhuqing,Yin Yiwei,Li Kexin,Lu Yue,Zou Jianing and Meng Song. ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Updates(into three parts): Views: Add the function of login and register Add the function of maximize the Figure Canvas while double-clicking the tag Add the Cooperate Project User List Display/Hide the function tag by Menu-Option-Views Modeling: Add rollback function Add redo function New Function, real-time cooperative modeling: Token Mechanism General Cooperative Mode Sign Mode Compare Mode ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- History: April 20, 2010 Orchestra Designer 3.0.3 Version released: Updates: The function of Collaborative modeling is added in this version. When multiple users operate with the same process model, the Modification made by one user will be showed on all the users? interfaces and all the models change synchronously. Moreover, this version adds the BPEL Generating Function. (It is supplied by BULL Corporation from France) ------------------------------------------------------------- January 7, 2010 Orchestra Designer 3.0.2 Version released: Updates: The users can download BPEL files in this version. This version also can realize the switch with JUDDI server. ------------------------------------------------------------- November 26, 2009 Orchestra Designer 3.0.1 Version released: Updates: This version is server version. Multiple users can share the same model file, because all the projects, folders and files are stored on the directory of the server. ------------------------------------------------------------- July 20, 2009 Orchestra Designer 2.8 Version released Updates: 1.Reconstructed the MVC framework 2.Renamed the projects, folders and files 3.Added the Select All, Copy and Paste operation for the figures 4.Optimized the transformation from flow diagram to BPEL 5.Complimented the attributes of the figures 6.Added association between diagram files and BPEL files 7.Discriminated BPEL elements and attributes by color ------------------------------------------------------------- July 1 ,2009 Orchestra Designer 2.4 Version released Updates: 1.Added the construction and revision of projects folders and files 2.Enabled instant renewing of the Resource Tree 3.Added the trailing, moving, delete and rename operation for the figures 4.Enabled the transformation from flow diagram to BPEL 5.Established the BPEL view 6.Resolved problems of failing to run locally ------------------------------------------------------------- June 18, 2009 Orchestra Designer 2.0 Version released Updates: redesigned the interface, changed the overall style, added tool bar, engineering view and UDDI view Supported the diagram view of the process and the XML view. Supported user to create new process, new folder and new process file. Supported filling the canvas with the grid while modeling. Replaced the BPMN figure by three different levels figures: Basic, Business and BPEL. Rebuilt the program structure base on Cairngorm MVC ------------------------------------------------------------- May 27, 2009 Orchestra Designer 1.0 Version released Completed the basic modeling function http://orchestradesigner.riaforge.org/ 2010-11-08 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX There are quite a few RIA platforms, but only three of any fame: Adobe&#39;s AIR, Microsoft&#39;s Silverlight and Oracle&#39;s JavaFX. You could make the case that ... http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Rich-Internet-Applications-The-Next-Frontier-of-Corporate-Development-732651/ 2010-09-08 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Learn how to quickly generate working GWT and Flex applications from existing DB tables, Java Beans and JPA entities in a matter of minutes. ... http://www.prlog.org/10888455-build-google-web-toolkit-and-adobe-flex-apps-in-mere-minutes.html 2010-09-08 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Projects can be imported to Amethyst from Adobe tools, including Flex Builder, Flash Builder, or the Flash IDE. The Amethyst Cylon debugger supports simple ... http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/microsoft-visual-studio-users-get-flash-development-capabilities-584 2010-09-08 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Will HTML5 make rich Internet application technologies such as Adobe Flash/Flex and Microsoft Silverlight obsolete?? asked analyst Jeffrey Hammond in a ... http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section%5Fid=851&doc%5Fid=196473&f%5Fsrc=internetevolution%5Fgnews 2010-09-08 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Adobe Flex 4 ACE (9A0-129) exam is on of the most potential exam of Adobe certifications. 9A0-129 exam is designed for those professional who want to be ... http://www.powerhomebiz.com/News/082010/practice-exams.htm 2010-08-30 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Amethyst Professional - the visual (drag-and-drop design) IDE for the Flash Platform - brings Flex, AIR, Flash and ActionScript development to Visual Studio. In addition to its visual Designer, Amethyst also has powerful editing features includes code folding, extensive ActionScript syntax coloring and user-configurable code formatting. It provides fast IntelliSense and a superset of the refactoring capabilities provided as standard for C#. It also has a powerful ?multi-process? debugger which gives programmers the ability to debug multiple separately compiled programs (Flash SWFs) simultaneously. http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Blog/article/amethyst-professional-now 2010-08-30 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX The automated testing and debugging feature saves time and allows quick deployment of the RIA. Adobe Flex has also added charting library in Flex 4, ... http://www.lonad.com/2010/08/23/flex-development-rias-for-better-business-results/ 2010-08-23 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Like Flash, Microsoft&#39;s proprietary Silverlight platform is used to create media-rich Web experiences. Silverlight is a key development component for the ... http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/203466/6_reasons_why_adobe_flash_isnt_going_away.html 2010-08-19 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Adobe has some pretty impressive technology, Flash, Flex, and AIR. Although they share root, Adobe may want to marketing these 3 as separate entities. ... http://phandroid.com/2010/08/18/adobe-air-bringing-flash-out-of-the-browser/ 2010-08-19 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX 360|Flex is coming up next month in DC! We?ve got a discount just for community members! ?communitymatters? saves you 15% off the awesome price of $599. hard to beat that deal! 4 days, for well under a thousand bucks! we just published the complete session description doc. Check it out! http://360flex.com/downloads/sessions.pdf You can also get the schedule here: http://360flex.com/downloads/schedule.pdf Hope you can make it! We?ve got an awesome event lined up for everyone, with over 40 sessions, from more than 35 speakers. Plus kick ass hands-on stuff on Sunday (included in the reg price) The hotel room block expires soon, don?t miss out on a great price for the hotel! http://www.cflex.net/shownewsitem.cfm?NewsID=850 2010-08-17 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX CNET by Larry Dignan Adobe Systems said Wednesday that it has acquired Day Software, which makes enterprise content management software, for $240 million. ... http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20011895-92.html 2010-07-30 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX SBWire (press release) Bangalore, Karnataka -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/29/2010 -- In the web 2.0 and RIA ecology, user requirements now require real-time information to be feed to the ... http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/sbwire-51937.htm 2010-07-30 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Visual Studio Magazine It generates the Flex code that developers use as the basis to develop the required logic using Adobe&#39;s Flash Builder as the development tool. ... http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2010/07/29/change-mgt-buried-riches.aspx 2010-07-30 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Create your rich mobile applications in record time What is it? ELIPS Studio 3 is leading the next generation of mobile application development environments. Now software developers and creative designers can quickly develop connected or non-connected applications... and deploy them on multiple mobile platforms. ELIPS Studio 3 is equally valuable for experienced mobile application developers who want extra productivity, and for Adobe Flash / Flex and web developers who want to reuse their RIA / RDA assets and create rich mobile applications. What problems does it solve? Until now, application developers needed in-depth expertise in all the mobile operating systems if they wanted to address a global market of over 4 billion phone users. And not just every operating system: they also had to understand the differences between the individual models from each manufacturer. ELIPS Studio 3 cuts through the complexity of the fragmented mobile market by providing a single development toolkit for the world&#39;s most popular handsets. It includes a sophisticated simulator, and the code it generates is compact and rapid enough to run even on low-specification, mass-market handsets. How does it work? 1- Develop in Adobe Flex/Flash Builder ELIPS Studio 3 is available as a plug-in for Adobe Flex / Flash Builder, a popular IDE for the development of RIAs and RDAs using the ActionScript and MXML languages. 2- Use our mobile Flex Framework The product comes with a mobile-optimized version of the Flex Framework and a wide range of Flex extension libraries, including mobile device features and UI components. These provide additional capabilities beyond those found in the &#39;standard&#39; Flex, such as making voice calls, accessing the phone&#39;s address book, sending SMS or MMS, taking snapshots or videos with the camera, and more. You can also import open source ActionScript Web 2.0 libraries. 3- Build and deploy for the mobile platforms you want ELIPS Studio 3 automatically mobilizes and packages your Flex-based applications for industry-leading platforms, including iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, plus proprietary mass-market devices that run Real-Time operating systems (RTOS). And because Open-Plug has a long track record of creating optimized code for cellular handsets... you?ll get amazing performance with your new Mobile 2.0 applications! <a href=&#34;http://www.openplug.com/products/elips-studio&#34;>Find out more...</a> http://www.cflex.net/shownewsitem.cfm?NewsID=846 2010-07-16 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX The Internet is evolving fast to match up to the rising expectations of the users. The web now supports applications that have features and functionality of desktop resident software. All this is possible because of a very advanced technology called Adobe Flex. Flex is used by professional Flex developer to create superior web based applications that impart user interactivity for better experience. Clearly, the enterprises are recognizing the prowess of Flex development and are hiring professional Flex developer who can expertly deliver an RIA which not only automates the business processing but also helps the enterprise to improve employee performance and hence increase their productivity by multiple folds. With the release of Flash Builder 4 and Flex SDK 4 Adobe has aimed to go big by adding features that help the Flex developer code faster and better. Even the testing is made easy, and the Flash Builder 4 tries to bridge the gap between a designer and a developer, and it has been successful in doing so. For enterprise application development to be good, the Flex developer needs to have considerable experience in Flex development so as to utilize the features of Flex platform optimally and implement business data analysis and charting systems in the enterprise applications. All this can be easily implemented through the charting library of the Flex SDK that helps in getting you a business intelligence system. Companies are looking for Flex developers who can unite the organization wide business processing by deploying a one-stop-shop like RIA that can take care of all the business development requirements of all the departments and unify the data centrally. The openings for Flex developers are worldwide as everyone is readily accepting the web based applications with desktop like functionality built on the Flex platform as these apps give more features with lesser codes. The code is easy to understand and maintain as it is well structured and a Flex developer who knows some of the good Flex development frameworks can create functional components that can be reused, extended, and modified at will. http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com%5Fcontent&task=view&id=425884&Itemid=31 2010-06-30 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX by Stephen Shankland Google is among the biggest proponents of a collection of Web technologies that reproduce many important features of Adobe Systems&#39; ... http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20009244-264.html 2010-06-30 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX 64-bit versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux now are in widespread use, and software for the operating systems is following suit. So it may seem a bit backward that Adobe withdrew its only 64-bit version of Flash Player. But don&#39;t take the disappearance of Adobe Labs&#39; experimental 64-bit Flash Player for Linux as a sign of things to come. Moving its widely used browser plug-in beyond the 32-bit era is a &#34;top priority,&#34; said Tom Nguyen, Adobe&#39;s Flash Player product manager, on Saturday. However, Adobe isn&#39;t committing itself publicly to a delivery schedule. And if it doesn&#39;t move with some alacrity, it risks inflicting broken Web sites on computer users who do make the 64-bit shift with their browsers. Plenty of people would be perfectly happy to see Flash fade from the Web, ranging from those who resent how it enables intrusive advertisements to those who are actively working to reproduce much of Flash&#39;s abilities in Web standards such as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). But there are also innumerable people who rely on Flash for online games, interactive charts, video streaming, and other uses. Those who switch to a 64-bit browser without a suitable version of Flash could find the Web doesn&#39;t work as they expect. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20008290-264.html 2010-06-21 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX ... to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX. ... http://www.techleader.co.za/readerblog/2010/05/11/will-adobes-flash-survive/ 2010-05-12 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Sorenson is delivering big changes for version 2, such as moving away from Adobe Flex in favor of Ajax and jQuery, to create a faster, more responsive ... http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Featured-News/Sorenson-360-V2-Aims-for-the-Top-67117.aspx 2010-05-12 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX Morgan Stanley?s Matrix is an ambitious project which should have taken the financial platforms and information delivery to the next stage. Built jointly with Adobe the Matrix utilized much of its advanced technology in order to create a Rich Internet Application (RIA). The look and feel was exceptional, if to judge by the demo site which now doesn?t seem to function. http://www.morganstanley.com/matrixinfo/ ? was open to everyone and showed a beautiful flash demo of the platform and its rich features such as trading, research, data mining and human filtered content. http://forexmagnates.com/morgan-stanley-shut-down-the-matrix-project/ 2010-05-12 ColdFusionMX,Flex,Macromedia,CFMX