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July 30, 2008

Dr. Dobb's Running RIA Story By Joe Rinehart

Joe Rinehart has written an article for Dr. Dobb's entitled Building RIAs on J2EE Foundations. Joe explains RIA development from a very ColdFusion and Flex centric view of the world, and walks through an example in detail. Nice job, Joe!

July 29, 2008

AMF Preferred

As a general rule, you want to be using AMF for communication between Flash Player on the client (running a Flash or Flex app) and your back-end server (unless you need messaging and push and data management services, in which case LiveCycle Data Services is what you'll want).

Lee Brimelow explains this (and lists AMF options for different back-ends) in a recent post entitled What the hell is AMF? And James Ward demonstrates the performance implications in his Census - RIA Data Loading Benchmarks.

July 16, 2008

Bing's Article On RIA Trends Now In English

Long time ColdFusion/Flex/AIR/ etc. friend, Chong-Bing Liu (aka Bing) wrote an article comparing RIA trends (including Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX, and Curl) by using Google Trends. The original article is in Chinese, and he just just posted an English translation.

July 8, 2008

Scott Stroz Introduces ColdFusion Powered Ajax RIAs

Adobe Developer Connection is running an article by Scott Stroz entitled Easy rich Internet applications with ColdFusion 8. The article, which was originally published by SitePoint, introduces ColdFusion 8 Ajax functionality, and walks through building a sophisticated ColdFusion powered Ajax based Rich Internet Application.

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