Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA


This series takes a look at a set of tools and technologies that work together to allow developers to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) quickly and easily on top of proven enterprise technologies that are traditionally associated with long, complex development efforts. Flex has made a name for itself as the most powerful platform available for developing RIAs, and LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS) takes Flex even further.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 1: The Tools You’ll Want

Tony Hillerson
January 15, 2008 | | Comments (15)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 1: The Tools You’ll Want
In this series, we’ll look at a small application that integrates the technologies of LCDS and EJB 3.0, and we’ll cover some timesaving tools as well as discuss how to use them to achieve a lightweight development environment for integrating an RIA with an enterprise environment. Ready to get started? First, a look at the tools a developer needs to follow along at home…

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 2: Running the Sample Code

Tony Hillerson
January 28, 2008 | | Comments (46)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 2: Running the Sample Code
In the last installment of our Development Series Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we looked at the tools we'll be discussing in this series. Now we're going to look at the sample code that uses those tools as a way to show Flex working in an enterprise setting. Ready to dig in? We've got sample code and full specs...

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 3: The Project's Structure

Tony Hillerson
February 4, 2008 | | Comments (7)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 3: The Project's Structure
In the last installment of our Development Series Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we looked at the sample code that uses the tools discussed in this series. Now we're going to have a look at J2EE project structures and how Maven, a build process and code process management tool, works with them.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 4: The Three Child Projects

Tony Hillerson
February 8, 2008 | | Comments (2)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 4: The Three Child Projects
In the last installment of our Development Series Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we looked at how we organized our project and described it with Maven. Now we'll continue looking at the project's structure, with an in-depth look at the three child projects for the purpose of learning more about project dependencies. Check it out!

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 5: Build Life Cycle

Tony Hillerson
February 18, 2008 | | Comments (0)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 5: Build Life Cycle
The last installment offered a guided tour of our project's structure, with an in-depth look at the three child projects and the project dependencies. In this installment of the Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we’ll take a look at the Maven build lifecycle and where the tests are located in our sample application. Join in our development exercise, every Monday.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 6: The Data Project Maven Build

Tony Hillerson
February 24, 2008 | | Comments (4)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 6: The Data Project Maven Build
In the last installment we looked at the Maven build lifecycle and where the tests are located in our sample application. In this installment of the Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we'll look at how Maven and Ant integrate and how we'll use DBUnit and DDLUtils to build and populate the database. Join us every Monday for another step in the development process.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 7: The ui Project Maven Build

Tony Hillerson
March 3, 2008 | | Comments (0)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 7: The ui Project Maven Build
Last installment we looked at Maven and Ant integration and using some data tools to help automatically populate the database. Now in part seven of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we're going to look at the UI part of the project including building Flex from Maven through Ant and automatically running external tasks from Eclipse. Follow along every Monday...

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 8: Development Cycle

Tony Hillerson
March 10, 2008 | | Comments (5)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 8: Development Cycle
In the last installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we looked at building Flex with Maven and Ant, and now we'll look at the development lifecycle so far. Then, in preparation for next installment, we'll look at the dependencies for the persistence layer of the application. Every Monday brings another stage of development at InsideRIA.com.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 9: Nouns and Entity Beans

Tony Hillerson
March 17, 2008 | | Comments (1)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 9: Nouns and Entity Beans
In the last installment we looked at our development lifecycle and the dependencies of our persistence layer. Now we're going to look at the actual code that makes up the persistence layer, Actionscript and Java. Follow along at each stage of development, every Monday on InsideRIA.com.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 10: DTOs or VOs

Tony Hillerson
March 24, 2008 | | Comments (3)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 10: DTOs or VOs
Last week we looked at the Actionscript and Java code for the persistent entities in our application. In this week’s installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we're going to look at the Java code for the service layer in our application and introduce the concept of the session bean from EJB 3.0. Follow along every Monday with our development tutorial.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 11: Testing What We Have

Tony Hillerson
March 31, 2008 | | Comments (2)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 11: Testing What We Have
Last installment we looked at the interfaces for the service layer of our application. In Part 11 of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we'll look at using TestNG, a Java test framework, to test our application so far. This feature is packed with code samples! Every Monday we bring you another installment in the series.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 12: Building the Java Service Layer

Tony Hillerson
April 7, 2008 | | Comments (1)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 12: Building the Java Service Layer
Last time we looked at testing the Java part of the application so far. In this section of the series from Tony Hillerson's Enterprise Application Development with Flex, we'll look at Maven building our service layer, and be introduced to the powerful LiveCycle Data Services assemblers, which deal with the managed data flowing in and out of Flex. Follow along every Monday with our project!

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 13: Building the Flex Service Layer

Tony Hillerson
April 14, 2008 | | Comments (10)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 13: Building the Flex Service Layer
In this week's installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we're going to start looking at the Flex service layer of our application, and be introduced to Cairngorm, the Flex micro-architecture that helps simplifiy the complexity of building user interfaces in Flex.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 14: Services and Delegates

Tony Hillerson
April 21, 2008 | | Comments (3)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 14: Services and Delegates
Last time we looked at Cairngorm and its role in our application. This installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we're going to look at Cairngorm’s business delegates and how to set up a service oriented architecture in Flex. Join us every Monday for the next installment in our series: Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 15: Commands and Controllers

Tony Hillerson
April 28, 2008 | | Comments (0)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 15: Commands and Controllers
Join us every Monday for the latest in our follow-along-at-home development series, Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA. This week we're focusing on Cairngorm commands and controllers and where they fit in our development.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 16: The Models

Tony Hillerson
May 5, 2008 | | Comments (0)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 16: The Models
In the last installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we looked at the Cairngorm command. In this installment we're going to have a look at the model locator. Follow along with each stage of development, every Monday on InsideRIA.com.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 17: Testing Flex

Tony Hillerson
May 12, 2008 | | Comments (5)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 17: Testing Flex
We've already seen how to automate the Java unit tests with TestNG, and in this week’s installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we're going to automate our Flex tests with Flex Unit and Maven/Ant. Join us Mondays as we finish up our series, Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 18: Building the View

Tony Hillerson
May 19, 2008 | | Comments (4)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 18: Building the View
In this installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA we're going to continue building the Flex view. We'll see more of mxml, Flex's layout language, and Flex's powerful binding framework.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 19: User Section: The Search Process

Tony Hillerson
May 27, 2008 | | Comments (2)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 19: User Section: The Search Process

In the last installment of Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA, we worked on building the Flex view. In this installment we're going to continue looking into the Flex view by examining the search tools in our application.

Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 20: Administration Section: Layout and Navigation

Tony Hillerson
June 6, 2008 | | Comments (10)
Tony Hillerson
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 20: Administration Section: Layout and Navigation

This installment concludes our series on Flex, LiveCycle Data Services, and EJB 3.0 by exploring the administrative section of the application, showing more managed data features, and looking at server push from JMS to Flex.

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