Articles by Marco Casario

Using the J2EE View Helper Pattern in Your AIR Applications

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST

I'm currently creating many small applications using AIR and Flex 3. Most of them are prototypes with the purposes of showing AIR features and the quantity of code is small (600 lines at most). In this context it does not make much sense to use a framework or architecture such as Cairngorm or PureMVC or Defraga. So that I'm using a lot what in JSP is called the View Helper pattern.

How to Create a Multi User Flex Application Using JMS

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:30:00 EST

In order to create a multi user Flex application, you can take advantage of one of the features of LiveCycle Data Services: the Messaging Services. The Messaging Services allows you to connect your Flex application to a message destination and send/receive messages to it from other clients. You use the JMS adapter to subscribe to JMS queues configured on an implementation of the Java Message Service. The Java Message Service (JMS) API is a Java Message Oriented Middleware API for sending messages between two or more clients.

Web and Mobile Convergence Sharing Data Between Flex 2 and Flash Lite

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:00:00 EST

I love the definition in Wikipedia of Media convergence: 'Media convergence is a theory in communications where every mass medium eventually merges to the point where they are indistinguishable to each other due to the advent of new communication technologies.'

Designing Loosely Coupled Flex 2 Components

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:00:00 EDT

Flex 2 applications may have complex architectures and they are usually made up of multiple files: MXML, Actionscript and CSS.

Mobile Learning with Flash Lite 2 and Adobe Captivate

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:15:00 EDT

In just a few years long-distance learning, or Electronic Learning (e-learning), has become a reality. The problem with distance and having to be in a certain place at a certain time has been eliminated with the use of the personal computer and the Web.