Inspired by a question that came across the internal mailing lists yesterday, I started kicking around the idea of having a Java servlet send a message available to a Flex application. With the new messaging subsystem of Flex 2, this type of communication (what I like to refer to as external push) is pretty straightforward. In the following post I will take a closer look at a simple JSP to Servlet to JMS to Flex 2 example.
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I had the distinct pleasure recently of presenting at the Spring <br /> 2006 conference at Ohio University in Athens, OH. It’s a funny thing how a college campus empties during spring break; it was almost a ghost town. That is that it was ghost town with the exception of the well-sized crowd that attended the conference. Amazingly well organized and with a diversity of topics to wet any developer’s appetite, I look forward to presenting/attending again in 2007.
I had two presentations - one on Developing with Flash Lite 2.0, and another Introducing Flex 2.0. After my Flash Lite presentation I had many requests for the slides and demonstration content. Those materials are attached to this post.