Introduction of Salesforce

My company uses Salesforce as its online CRM solution. And I happen to be in charge of this team. So, I get a chance to mess around with it. The more I look into it, the more I like the idea and infrastructure behind it. I am not going to dig deep into [...]

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Power of BlazeDS
Recently, I found out that Adobe has released BlazeDS (subset of LiveCycleDS) that has 4 main advantages:

AS3 to Java object communication (no XML passes back and forth is needed!)
Boost up performance b/c AMF is a binary protocol
Built-in proxy support that gets around the cross domain security issue from Flex in ease.
Allow push messaging

I [...]

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Get started
Follow the steps below to get your first Flex salesforce app up in Salesforce.

Register a developer edition account from Salesforce. Note: Dev account never expires but the account does come with a few limitations. You can only have two users, one an admin account so that you can build and install applications and the [...]

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Here is the list of reasons why I chose Flex for the RIA development.

Write Once Deploy Everywhere - Flex generates SWF that runs on top of Flash Player VM and behaves consistently across different browsers, even mobile phones later. With this, all the browser compatibility issues are basically offloaded by Adobe.
Solid programming model with rich [...]

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What is Cairngorm?
Adobe Consulting Group has defined an architectural framework for Flex application, named "Cairngorm". The framework has borrowed quite a bit of design patterns from GOF and J2EE. Its goal is to help us to layout the groundwork for complicated RIA. It is interesting to see how those patterns work together in a seamless [...]

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I have come across an excellent article from Joe Berkovitz that talks about a “right” way to architect your application. I like this article a lot. It gives me a good refresh of what I have learnt in these years. I decide to spend a little time to go over some of the key points [...]

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