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Applications

A collection of 10 posts

Internet of Things (IOT) for a Java developer

Nowadays there is no possibility not to read about the new next thing: Internet of Thins (IOT). As a Java developer who mainly develops web applications and the backends IOT is not the daily business (at least in my case) but if you search hard enough you'll find

spring-mvp Vaadin addon

After my first successfully completed Vaadin project I knew: Vaadin is a very good technology but the provided possibilities to create event driven applications were too limited. Coming from Adobe Flex using the Cairngorm project I knew there should be more possibilities for dispatching events, register listeners and so on.

Quo vadis Flex?

A lot of things changed in the Adobe Flex world since I wrote my last entry. Adobe stopped the development for the Adobe Air Runtime for Linux systems, Adobe wanted to support Maven officially, Adobe stopped the development of FlashPlayer for Android and Adobe decided to give Flex to the

Barcode Scanner v0.2

A couple of weeks ago a former colleague of mine asked me if it would be possible to integrate the barcode scanner application into his application which does not use any Java. Well, of course this is possible! Flex can call Javascript methods given in the surrounding HTML so I

Debugging Flex applications

Until yesterday it was fine for me using the integrated debugger in Flex-/Flashbuilder to debug my applications. It provides much comfort, nothing has to be configured, everything is fine. But currently I'm working on an application which consists of several modules which are built using flexmojos and

Flashbuilder additional Compiler arguments

If you build your Flex application using flexmojos version < 3.7 you have to give Flashbuilder some additional compiler settings for multilingual application. In my projects I use the standard flexmojos maven project structure. I put my locale properties files in src/main/resources/locale which means you have

Data Management with GraniteDS

Introduction Flex itself can't access any backend Java logic. One could use HTTP Services to access backend systems but if you want to transfert data as quick as possible you should use something like Adobe BlazeDS or GraniteDS. BlazeDS is provided by Adobe and does not have several

Incompatibility Flashbuilder 4.1 Eclipse Plugin and Eclipse Helios

Today I discoverd a strange bug in Flashbuilder 4.1 Eclipse plugin in combination with Eclipse Helios SR1. The installation was without problems and I was even able to run FlexUnit testcases for Flex Application projects but I wasn't able to run FlexUnit testcases for Flex Library projects.

Sorting huge data in Adobe Flex

In Flex it is possible to load a very huge amount of data into an DataGrid/AdvancedDataGrid. A build in feature of a DataGrid is the column sorting. About two years ago a colleague of mine had exactly this scenario. He had a DataGrid and he put a lot of

Barcode Scanner application

Introduction There are several barcode applications out for mobile devices. The usecase is more or less the same: "You are somewhere in a shop and want to buy some new thing. You are not sure if the price is hot, so you scan the barcode with your mobile device