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This month's topic: 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

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Speaker: James Ward

James 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.

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PJUG meetings start with some time to eat and socialize (pizza and beverages are provided), followed by the featured speaker, then Q&A, discussion, sometimes a drawing to give away swag. :)

Though we like knowing how many people to expect, you don't *have* to RSVP, on Upcoming or otherwise. Go ahead and just show up!

Many people also go for a drink and further discussion following the meeting, at a location determined ad hoc (more often than not, Jax on 2nd).

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Added by waj on December 15, 2008