News by Christophe Coenraets

SQLite Admin Application for AIR

13 Jun 23:59
I put together this SQL Admin application to help me manipulate my SQLite databases when working with AIR. The application is based on the SQL Admin for Google Gears I posted recently. This is an early version and is not fully functional. For example, because in this beta of AIR we don’t expose system tables, I cannot [...

Flex and Google Gears: sales force automation application with offline capabilities

8 Jun 22:54
As a follow up to my previous post, here is the sample Sales Force Automation application I built to demonstrate the Flex/Google Gears integration, and that Kevin Lynch demonstrated during the Google Developer Day keynote last week in San Jose. SalesBuilder uses the Google Gears Database API to save data to an embedded SQLite database, and [...

Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears

1 Jun 05:45
I spent the last few days building a Flex/Google Gears integration demo that Kevin Lynch demonstrated during the Gears announcement today at the Google developer day in San Jose. The demo is a Flex-based Sales Force Automation application that uses Gears to save data to a local SQLite database while offline, and automatically synchronizes back with [...

New MDI-style Trader Desktop with Flex and Apollo

2 May 05:16
I put together a new example of a Trader Desktop application built with Flex and running in Apollo or in a browser. This application features configurable watch lists and data visualization panels organized in an MDI-style user interface. This version simulates data changes at the client-side to allow you to experience the application locally without [...

Synchronizing Data in Apollo using Flex Data Services

31 Mar 05:53
In my previous post, I provided an example of an Apollo application using the Flex Message Service. Since then, a number of people have asked for examples of Apollo applications accessing data using the Flex Data Management services. So here is a simple Contact Management application that demonstrates this integration. Using the Data Services to work [...

Real Time Market Data using Apollo and Flex Data Services

24 Mar 03:58
After the public alpha was released on Monday on labs, there has been a lot of interest in using Apollo together with the Flex Data Services. The combination of Apollo and FDS allows you, for example, to easily push data to Apollo applications, or to seamlessly integrate Apollo applications with Java back-ends using Remoting or [...

Building the back-end of the Tour of California Tour Tracker using Flex Data Services

28 Feb 01:48
If you hadnt heard about it, the Tour of California ended on Sunday. To allow cycling enthusiasts around the world to follow the race in real time, the Experience Design (XD) team at Adobe built the Tour Tracker , an inspiring application built with Flex (in four weeks) and combining live video streaming, real time [...

Presenting Flex at the Seattle Java Users Group on Tuesday (January 16th)

13 Jan 03:45
I will be delivering a Flex presentation called “Sexy Web Apps with Java, Mozilla Tamarin, and Flex” at the Seattle Java Users Group on Tuesday January 16th at 6:45pm. From the SeaJUG web site: In this session Christophe Coenraets will do live demonstrations and write code to show how easy it is to build sexy web apps [...

Flex Data Management Services Tutorial

13 Jan 02:58
As part of the Flex Test Drive Server, I wrote a new Flex Data Management Services tutorial. The tutorial takes you through the full FDMS application development life cycle: Java assembler, destination, and client application. Additional topics include: Controlling when changes are sent to the server Controlling client synchronization (autoSyncEnabled) Single Item vs Batch Updates Conflict resolution Locking strategies Fill queries Single [...

Flex Test Drive Server for Java Developers (Tomcat-based)

13 Jan 01:53
I have been working on a Tomcat-based Flex Test Drive Server . The Test Drive Server is a minimal and ready-to-use version of Tomcat (currently version 5.5.20) in which the Flex Data Services (version 2.0.1) WAR file has already been deployed and configured along with a variety of tutorials and sample applications. It allows you to [...
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