With only two weeks to go now before JavaOne, its annual Javaganza for developers, Sun has revealed that Java is at long last to be made 100% open source. 'We're trying to get Java into places it's never been before,' Rich Sands, group manager for developer marketing at Sun, told an in...

This was the first time I've included into the list of the RIA players a little known product called Curl. Even though this language was created in MIT, it's mainly used in Japan. I had a chance to spend an hour with Curl folks today, and it seems that this language may be a good fit ...

Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company...

During the Q&A period after one of my sessions at the iPhone Developer Summit last Thursday, there was someone there from Microsoft Competetive Intelligence. She asked myself and some other folks who were lingering nearby to describe, in our unbiased opinions, what we thought was wrong...

Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million. It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in...

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S...

AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, and will offer a new dedicated 'iPhone Track.' Another dedicated track will offer a comparative education opportunity for conference delegates on emerging RIA...

In playing around with the ColdFusion/Flex wizards, I found that Adobe includes a really nice resizeable closeable window. When I get more time, I'll integrate this with my MaximizeRestorePanel class.

At the first-ever 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar last month, Luis Polanco - Adobe Senior Product Manager - really piqued everyone's interest with his introduction to Apollo: Adobe's Next Generation Client. Although people came to this Flex Seminar already quite aware of what Flex is...

'Seems like a lot going on here,' wrote John Dowdell; 'The place is pretty packed. Geeks mingled with suits; some of the geeks IN suits,' wrote Flash guru Jesse Randall Warden. 'Loooots of demos. And that's exactly what I came for,' wrote arpit. The blogosphere has been giving its earl...

The irrepressible Mansour Raad opened the eyes of the 'Real-World Flex' audience wide on Monday, as he demonstrated the extraordinary power of Adobe's Flex by demo'ing a mouth-watering sequence of 'mapping mashups' drawing on the full power of ESRI's astonishing GIS data combined with ...

Registration opened yesterday - at the 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar being held by SYS-CON Events - for the New York Flex User Group. The group will serve as a central meeting place to exchange ideas, solutions and network with other Flex developers.

The historic Grand Ballroom of The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan again looks fantastic and Adobe's Dave Mendels (pictured) is keynoting which is certain to be a huge hit with the audience because he'll incorporate live demos etc.

Courtesy of August 10's terrorist twist of fate, this blog has been handwritten. I am typing it now only because what is important, wherever terrorism or threat of terrorism is concerned, is to maintain Business As Usual, so as to minimize disruption.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the Adobe MAX 2006 Conference, to be held Oct. 23-26 in Las Vegas. MAX 2006 will give developers and designers a forum to network, share ideas, get hands-on technical training from certified experts, gain new skills and learn about new...

Two months ago - March 13, 2006 - William Wechtenhiser, Director of Flex Enterprise for Adobe, was interviewed by SYS-CON.TV. See the interview, conducted by SYS-CON Media group publisher and editorial director Jeremy Geelan, recorded live at the 'Real-World AJAX' One-Day Seminar in Ne...

The recent Real-World Ajax Seminar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York offered a tour de force of Ajax approaches, including many presentations that spoke of augmenting and 'flexing' Ajax beyond its basic definition.

I've been spending quite a bit of time in FlexBuilder lately, and have started to rely extensively on some shortcuts. Some of these are actually Eclipse shortcuts, but regardless, these are some of my favorite:

Adobe Flex Evangelist Christophe Coenraets showed how the company's Flex product (acquired via the recent Macromedia acquisition) extends the Ajax approach to web application development, in a presentation at the Real-World Ajax Seminar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on June 6.

Adobe Flex is a complete application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform rich Internet applications within the enterprise or across the web. Leveraging the ubiquitous cross-browser Flash Player, Flex enables developers to deploy applications that have the re...

The JBoss Mail Server (JBMS) has been recently re-branded for its upcoming 1.0 release as 'JBoss Collaboration Server.' The web-based mail client component of the whole collaboration server package, says JBoss's Andy Oliver, is 'spellbinding.' The JBMS team used Flex 2.0 from Adobe.

Some people take the dog for a walk, other go play a round of golf. Not Christophe Coenraets. His idea of a good time is to illustrate Flex and JMS integration by extending a simple 'realtime feed' application that he built a while back! Web Developer's & Designer's Journal is proud to...

Flex 2 is a good technology for development of rich Internet applications, and Adobe is already making some serious changes in the pricing policy to bring Flex 2 to masses. But to make it attractive to five million of professional Java developers they should offer Eclipse-based Flex B...

New OpenAjax members announced today include, Adobe, Backbase, Fair Isaac, ICEsoft, Innoopract, Intel, JackBe, Opera, SAP, Scalix, Software AG, Tibco and XML11. These new members join the initial members, including BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Las...

Flex 2 Beta 3 becomes available to the general public today. I'm glad to be a part of this exiting and vibrant community of people. In my opinion, Flex community carries lots and lots of positive energy these days. I've been participating in all phases of pre-release Flex testing, and ...