A great little post on the step-by-step instructions to get BlazeDS up and running on Amazon's EC2 service for Flex RIA apps:
http://weblog.cahlan.com/2020/04/easy-setup-guide-for-blazeds-zero-to.html
Damon
Below is a list of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS product info, demos, doc and customer reference links that you may find helpful.
PRODUCT INFO
LiveCycle Data Services Community Edition
LiveCycle Data Services ES
LiveCycle Data Services ES In-Depth
LiveCycle Data Services ES Features & Benefits
BlazeDS
BlazeDS Features
LiveCycle Data Services ES 2.6 Public Beta
DOCUMENTATION
Dev Center:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices2_6
Capacity Planning Guide:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/livecycle/es/sdkHelp/programmer/lcds/flex2wp_fdscapacityplanning.pdf
DEMOS
Universal Minds GeoLayer Demo:
http://www.universalmind.com/demo/launchpad/GeoLayer.html
Adobe SalesBuilder Demo:
http://coenraets.org/blog/2020/04/yahoo-maps-collaboration-using-flex-and-blazeds and
http://coenraets.org/blog/2020/02/salesbuilder-beta-3-air-file-flex-source-code
A simple mortgage application collaboration demo:
http://coenraets.org/blog/2020/04/collaborative-data-entry-with-flex-and-blazeds
A simple Yahoo! MAPS collaboration demo:
http://coenraets.org/blog/2020/04/yahoo-maps-collaboration-using-flex-and-blazeds
Also note that default LCDS turnkey install includes some nice samples with code to unveil the magic:
http://localhost:8700/samples/
CUSTOMER EXAMPLES
MFG.com
Cegedim
SkyGrid
Optimal Payments
Pikeo
Acesis
eTrade Germany
Damon
Just posted to Adobe Labs, we've made available a public Beta of Adobe® LiveCycle® Data Services ES 2.6, the Adobe server-based technology that streamlines the integration of rich Internet applications (RIAs) with LiveCycle Services, J2EE applications, and business logic.
Check it out here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices2_6
This release aligns with the releases of Adobe Flex® 3 and Adobe Flex Builder™ 3. It provides new and enhanced capabilities for enterprise developers building application utilizing Flex and LiveCycle. A complete list of new features is contained in the documentation. Below are some highlights.
New and enhanced features include:
- Alignment with Flex 3
- Improved LiveCycle Foundation Integration Features
- Improved RTMP Performance and Scalability
- Scalable HTTP Based Channel
- Data Management Paging Improvements
- Data Management Offline Improvements
- Data Management Improved Subtype Support
- Data Management and Hibernate Improvements
Nota that the complete list of new features and enhancements and fixes is located in the documentation. We sincerely appreciate your participation in the public Beta release, and as always, look forward to your feedback!
Damon
This Adobe DevNet article was just posted by the Adobe ColdFusion QE own team lead, Manju Kiran, on how to take full advantage of the new 64-bit WIndows, OSX, and Linux support added in the new ColdFusion 8.0.1 Update that went out a few days ago.
Check it out here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/64_bit.html
Damon
I’ve heard from customers that they really need a solid load testing solution for their RIA Flex apps, and while RadView is just coming into the Flex scene, they do bring a key part of a successful RIA application deployment to the table - load testing – to the table. Your Flex app might be great looking, but how does it perform under load? Can you handle peak traffic periods? RadView’s WebLOAD can help you answer these questions and go live with confidence.
I'm certainly the first one to point out that there are multiple vendors beginning to support the load testing of Flex applications (Load Runner among them), however, I can vouch for the fact that RadView has been extremely responsive, these guys have a great and robust solution, and we’ve worked with them closely on several initiatives and will likely do more work together to better serve our mutual customers.
As Flex is being adopted by more and more leading enterprises, application performance has become critical for the success of Flex implementations. RadView has worked closely with Adobe to develop an Add-On for load and performance testing of Flex applications.
The first version of the WebLOAD Flex add-on supports the HTTPChannel (passes messages in the AMFX XML format) and the AMFChannel (supporting AMF0 & AMF3). Hence it supports using RPC-style services. It can also support messaging, if you configure your application to fallback to one of the polling options (just for the sake of testing). Future planned versions will support the StreamingAMFChannel and later the RTMPChannel to cover messaging and data management services natively, covering all the bases for RIA load testing, as it were.
Something I thought was pretty cool when they came in house to demo their AMF solution was how WebLOAD handles AMF messages and formats them in its IDE, used to edit and debug your test scripts. The binary messages are serialized into JavaScript objects (JavaScript being WebLOAD’s native scripting language), and using smart filtering techniques enables the script developer to easily parameterize them and add verification functionality to the script.
When running the load test against your application, you can use WebLOAD’s Performance Measurement Manager to collect server-side statistics from both BlazeDS and LCDS (together with the other servers that run your application) to see how they behave under load.
Check it out and download the eval version + Flex Add-on here: http://www.radview.com and give it a try with your application. (NOTE: You do need to ask for a license that includes the Flex Add-on, by emailing support@radview.com).
Hope that helps!
Damon
ColdFusion 8.0.1 has been released. Get your free update here:
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403277
The ColdFusion 8 Update 1 release is a follow-up to the extraordinarily well received initial release of ColdFusion 8, and includes full support for 64-bit OSs, as well as support for Mac OSX 10.5 ("Leopard") and Windows Server 2020.
We have also added some core language improvements, including nesting of structure and array creation and have made AttributeCollections significantly more powerful, allowing developers to create structures of information that can be re-used from one tag to another.
See the Release Notes for full details and the full list of feature additions.
The ColdFusion 8 release is one of our finest ever, but there is always room for improvement, so in addition to the feature updates, we have also fixed a significant number of reported issues. Take a look at “Issues Fixed in this Release” in the Release Notes for details.
Adobe ColdFusion 8 continues it's UNBELIEVABLE adoption curve without sign of letting up, and we now have the all-OS 64-bit platform support firmly nailed down in 8.0.1.
Nice job team!
Damon