Detroit Java User Group - August 19th - Adobe's James Ward - Java and Flex

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The Detroit Java User Group is very pleased to announce a special
event,

What: Java and Flex
Who: James Ward
When: August 19, 2009, 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Where: ePrize
One ePrize Drive
Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069

Our meetings are FREE and open to the public.
Space is limited so, please RSVP: mckinno...@ymail.com
mckinnon.david [at] ymail.com

Java and Flex
Building highly interactive software that users love to use is usually
a challenging endeavor.
However, the open source Flex SDK and Java are a perfect combination
of technologies for building
very rich and highly interactive software for the Web and the desktop.
The communication between
the Java back-end and Flex front-end can utilize a number of different
communication protocols,
but the easiest and best performing is the open source BlazeDS
library. This session covers the
fundamentals of using Flex, Java, Spring, and BlazeDS to build rich
and highly interactive software
for the Web and the desktop.

James Ward 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.

Food and Beverages sponsored by The Epitec Group
Prizes Provided by O'Reilly Media and Manning Publishing


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