This week we look at Adobe deploying an enterprise solution to Amazon EC2, a complete Flash Catalyst tutorial from Ryan Stewart, Silverlight on Linux with Moonlight, JavaFX charting with JFXtras, source code for Silverlight controls being published, and a JavaScript implementation of ActiveRecord. All this and more on the Weekly RIA RoundUp from InsideRIA.

FEATURED: Adobe LiveCycle Deployed on EC2

Adobe announced this week that they are now making instances of their LiveCycle server deployed on a complete J2EE stack with JBoss available on Amazon EC2. LiveCycle is Adobe's Business Process Management (BPM) solution for the Enterprise. This indicates a major paradigm shift where enterprise-level server platforms are being made available in a 'pay for what you use' model. This expands the traditional reach of LiveCycle to projects that would not have previously considered it. It will be interesting to see what RIA's will be integrated with LiveCycle in the future.

ReadWriteWeb: Adobe's LiveCycle Powered by Amazon

Amazon AWS Gains a Web Console

While there have been Firefox plugins like ElasticFox for working with Amazon Web Services, there has not been an actual web interface for working with services like EC2. That changed this week as Amazon released an Ajax-based control panel that allows the user the ability to manage his EC2 instances. This means that any user with an EC2 account can manage all of their server instances from any computer with a web browser. In the future this will expand to all services offered by AWS.

John Beynon: Amazon deliver web based console

Brightkite Wall with Flex

This week the location based social network, BrightKite, released a Flex application that let's the end user see a ticker style display of incoming notes and photos. This application, The BrightKite Wall, also let's the end user define what data should be displayed. The data can be filtered by user, location, or search terms.

Adam Flater: The Brightkite Wall

BrightKite Wall

Flash Catalyst Tutorial

Ryan Stewart, evangelist at Adobe, recently completed a written and video tutorial on Flash Catalyst. This is one of the most extensive tutorials on Flash Catalyst to date, and it covers the version that was released to all Adobe Max attendees back in November.

Ryan Stewart (Adobe): Getting Started with Flash Catalyst Tutorial

Developing Flex in Visual Studio Tutorial

Matt Wicks gives an overview of how to get started developing Flex applications inside of Visual Studio utilizing the Ensemble Tofino plug-in. He covers everything from downloading and installing the plug-in, creating your first Flex application, and debugging your application inside of Visual Stdio.

Matt Wicks: Using Adobe Flex in Visual Studio

Source Code for Silverlight Controls Published

The source code for the Silverlight controls (the actual controls found in the runtime/SDK). This source code is released under the Microsoft Public License. It not only includes the source code but also the unit tests used for these controls.

Tim Heuer (Microsoft): Source code for Silverlight controls published

Silverlight Controls Source Code

Peer to Peer with Adobe Stratus

Adobe has launched Adobe Stratus, a service that facilitates person-to-person communication inside of Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5. This service is now in beta, and you can signup for a developer key at the Adobe Labs site on Adobe Stratus below.

Ted Patrick (Adobe): Adobe Stratus - Peer-2-Peer connection service for FP10 & AIR 1.5

Adobe Stratus

ActiveRecord Ajax ORM Released

Aptana released an ActiveRecord ORM implementation for JavaScript this week that is designed to work with Google Gears, Adobe AIR, Aptana Jaxer (which can connect to MySQL or SQLite), and even just storing the data in memory. According to the site, "The library ships in a single file, has no external dependencies, and runs client side in all major browsers with or without access to a SQL database".

Aptana Blog: ActiveRecord.js Released as Beta: Adds Object Relational Mapping to JavaScript

JFXtras Adds Charting to JavaFX

The previously mentioned JFXtras project is bringing charting controls to JavaFX. James Weaver has an initial demo of this functionality that shows a configurable pie chart that can be launched from his blog.

James Weaver: JavaFX Pie Chart Demo: A Taste of Charts/Graphs Coming to the JFXtras Project

JFXtras at Google Code

Silverlight Linux Installation

Tim Heuer highlights the process of installing the MoonLight 1.0, a Linux version of the Silverlight 1.0 runtime developed by Novell. While there isn't a way to view Silverlight 2 content on a Linux machine, this will allow Linux users to view most Silverlight 1.0 content.

Tim Heuer (Microsoft): Screencast of Silverlight installation on Linux

Moonlight Project Page

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