Category: Flex
New Flex Libraries for SAP's NetWeaver
March 31st, 2009, No Comments
Dust off your SAP logins! SAP’s NetWeaver Product Manager Thomas Jung introduces a new section for eLearning, blogs, and other learning materials from both Adobe and SAP regarding development of interfaces with Flex/Flash and SAP. This post discusses the Web Dynpro for ABAP framework in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP1 and how it provides new libraries [...]
Tutorial: Salesforce.com with Flex and BlazeDS
March 26th, 2009, 4 Comments
It’s fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesforce.com. We use Apex and Visualforce for a large majority of our custom UIs but there are some instances that just work better with Flex (drag and drop, trees, tabbed interfaces, etc.). But what if you have a shiny, new Flex application running on [...]
Hoagie – The Developer's Other White Meat
February 10th, 2009, No Comments
Joe Rinehart is proposing a new development stack for rapid, RIA development that includes some of my favorite and most used technologies: Business layer written in Groovy (Java) JPA and Hibernate for database persistence Spring for the service layer Coldspring / Model-Glue / ColdFusion for the presentation layer JMS and Swiz for a nice RIA [...]
Mate – Problems Dispatching Events from a Manager Class
February 4th, 2009, 4 Comments
I switched to Mate framework for Flex a few months ago and really love its simplicity in respect to Cairngorm and other frameworks. Mate is a tag-based, event-driven Flex framework that provides a mechanism for dependency injection to make it easy for the different parts of an application to get the data and objects they [...]
Flex Callback Example with Visualforce
December 9th, 2008, 1 Comment
I was working on a somewhat complex search interface for Salesforce.com using Flex. I needed to do some communication with Apex so I threw together a little demo to outline the basic functionality of a Flex app communicating with a Visualforce page via a Javascript callback. You can run this example on my Developer Site. [...]
Flex Salesforce.com Tree Control
December 8th, 2008, 4 Comments
One of the things that Salesforce.com is lacking is a descent tree control to display hierarchical data. I did notice a screenshot on the Winter ’09 Developer Screencast of a tree control but according to our Salesforce.com technical reps there are no plans to release this. There is a really good Flex tutorial on developer.force.com [...]
BlazeDS – ReferenceError: Error #1056
December 5th, 2008, 1 Comment
I have been doing Flash Remoting with Flex and ColdFusion for a number of years but wanted to do something with a pure Java solution. I decided to setup BlazeDS (Adobe’s open source server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology) on my EC2 instance for fun. I found a great tutorial (“Getting started with BlazeDS”) [...]
Salesforce.com's Flex Toolkit Operational Again
November 22nd, 2008, 1 Comment
Adobe released the new Flash 10 player about a month ago and it seems to have wreaked havoc at Salesforce.com. It looks like the main bug with the Flex Toolkit has been resolved but there are still a few lingering issues to be dealt with. On 10/24 it looks like Salesforce.com applied an update that [...]
Developing Salesforce.com Applications with Flex and Visualforce
November 12th, 2008, 16 Comments
I receive a number of inquiries as to the best way to develop Flex apps for multiple Salesforce.com orgs. My methodology might not be the best but it certainly gets the job done by allowing me to easiy develop locally, test on one of our 10+ sandboxes and deploy to production. Since the code never [...]
Handling asynchronous Flex calls to Salesforce.com using an MVC framework
June 3rd, 2008, No Comments
I’m working on a Flex applications using the Flex Toolkit for Apex and Model-Glue:Flex as the MVC framework. I’ve got my main applications, controllers, models and views working well. One on my requirements is to make a call to Salesforce.com, fetch some user settings and then display a specific canvas depending on the returned values. [...]
