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This month James Ward will speak

Topic:
Title: Sexier Software with Flex and Java

Outline:
Intro to Rich Internet Applications
- RIA as the next generation of Software
- Back to the Client-Server Model
- Adobe's RIA Software Development Platform

Intro to building software with Flex
- What is Flex?
- Open Source SDK
- ActionScript & MXML Languages
- Components
- How do you use Flex?
- Compiler
- Debugging

Intro to BlazeDS (Java Integration)
- Installing BlazeDS into a Web App (WAR File)
- Remoting (RPC style object invocations over HTTP)
- Pub/Sub Messaging
- Spring Integration

Author Bio:
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP
representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for
climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless
new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His
adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise,
technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and
Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid
90’s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late
90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for
Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and
customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.