Category: Flex
Developing Apps with the Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com
January 11th, 2010, No Comments
I’ve been doing a lot of work the past couple of weeks with the new Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com and the new Stratus framework. I’m in the putting together a fairly large Adobe Air demo and an accompanying blog post. In the meantime I ported a small app from Flex 3 to the new [...]
Embed a Flex Slider in a Visualforce Page
October 29th, 2009, 6 Comments
I did a simple Flex callback with JavaScript about a year ago and I always wanted to follow up with this topic. Somehow I never quite found the time. This is an example of how you can create a Flex component (a horizontal slider in this case), wrap it up as a Visualforce component and [...]
Developer Preview of the Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Force.com
October 27th, 2009, No Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog
Yesterday Salesforce.com released a developer preview of the Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Force.com allowing developers to create powerful, engaging offline applications running on the Force.com platform. I had a chance to download the software, build a sample application and really go through all of the documentation.
The product, codename Stratus, is a [...]
Cool Code at Lunch Webinar – Flex & Salesforce
September 25th, 2009, 6 Comments
I was the guest speaker on our “Cool Code at Lunch” webinar yesterday where I showed the basics of developing, upload and running a Flex application on Salesforce with the Force.com Toolkit for Adobe AIR and Flex. The example app was a simple DataGrid populated with Contacts.
The application turned out to be a really good [...]
Developing Flex Applications for Force.com Sites
September 7th, 2009, 6 Comments
Developing Flex applications for a Force.com Site is a little different than developing Flex applications that run inside the standard Salesforce.com UI. Since visitors are not required to log in to your Force.com Site there is no concept of an actual user. All visitors simply run as a specific profile under the Guest license.
Since there [...]
Rich Internet Applications Using Flex, Salesforce.com and Google App Engine
August 20th, 2009, 2 Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog
It’s fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesforce.com. But what if you’d like to run your Flex applications on another SaaS provider like Google App Engine or Amazon EC2. We are going to set up a simple Flex application that fetches Accounts and Opportunities from Salesforce.com [...]
Displaying Validation Messages with Flex and Salesforce.com
August 2nd, 2009, 2 Comments
I created a small Flex application that outlines how you can return messages (required fields, validation errors, etc) from Salesforce.com. The code is fairly basic and checks the return object’s success flag and display error message depending on the value of the flag.
You can run this demo on my Developer Site.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
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A Big, Scalable Bucked of RIA Goodness
June 23rd, 2009, No Comments
I was thinking about writing this tutorial but it looks like someone has already beat me to it. This is a really good example of using Flex, BlazeDS and Eclipse with Google App Engine for Java for a highly scalable interface.
He even references the GAE/J hack for Adobe BlazeDS to run.
Nice work!
Flex and Force.com Toolkit Updates
June 22nd, 2009, 2 Comments
I’m a BIG fan of Flex and have been developing applications with it since the Flex 2 beta. Not only is it a great front-end for Java applications but you can create some stunning interfaces for Salesforce.com.
We have a number of applications in Production using the Force.com Toolkit and Adobe BlazeDS. The Toolkit allows you [...]
15 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex, BlazeDS and Salesforce.com
May 6th, 2009, No Comments
InfoQ has a really good article entitled, 13 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex and BlazeDS. I’ve been a big fan of Flex front ends for Java for a long time and have a couple of application running in production with Adobe BlazeDS. I have a tutorial to help you get up and running [...]
