Flex is a great way to introduce rich Internet applications to your enterprise. However, in the real world, you often have to do it gradually.  Most business units of any enterprise that are sold on RIA would prefer adding Flex-based components to their old but working Web 1.0 applications one at a time.

Recently, on one of the expo floors, one product caught my attention – DreamFace-Fx for Adobe Flex. After seeing the demo of this friendly software, it’s clear that DreamFace-Fx will be in a big demand in the IT shops of large and small businesses. With this friendly software, adding an SWF to a DHTML page is a trivial task. Wiring it with other Flex or AJAX components is simple too. Think of iGoogle, which allows you to not only select and add your widgets to a Web page, but also supports communication between them in a loosely coupled fashion.

The screen below shows you a Flex datagrid and chart component that offer different representations of the same data collection, which are bound to the same data collection (Flex). But when you select a row in a grid, both the chart and the map (AJAX) get refreshed automatically.

I highly recommend that you to try to this free toolkit with your application.

For more information please visit Dreaminteractive FX Web site and read this press release :

DreamFace Interactive Delivers First Mashup Kit:  DreamFace-Fx for Adobe Flex  June ‘08

Paris, June 24, 2008 – Following the private Beta release last month, DreamFace Interactive is announcing general availability of the DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Adobe Flex.  As promised at Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco, DreamFace-Fx is the first Mashup Kit to reach developers in a comprehensive roadmap which will extend the DreamFace Open Source Web 2.0 Framework to include complementary technologies.  Olivier Poupeney, DreamFace Interactive CEO explains the choice of Adobe Flex for the first Mashup Kit, “There is a need today for RIA technologies in SOA applications, and Flex is getting attraction from the Java community thanks to its smooth integration with J2EE, however, using Flex usually means abandoning Ajax with the risk of being linked to a single technology.  With DreamFace-Fx, developers can easily integrate Flex and Ajax, leveraging the combined technologies and resulting in functionality greater than the sum of its parts."

DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Flex

The DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Adobe Flex brings Flex into full play within DreamFace Interactive DataWidgets, Mashups and Applications.  Flex is a highly productive, free open source environment for building and maintaining expressive web applications and widgets.  Now, with the DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Flex, Flex-powered widgets can be freely mixed and mashed with ajax-based DreamFace DataWidgets.  The DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit provides full bi-directional integration with Flex applications.  It sets Flex apps as first-class DataWidgets that can be personalized and shared and which can trigger and react to interactions and business rules like any other DreamFace DataWidget. 
 
DreamFace-Fx: The Best of Both Worlds

DreamFace-Fx provides full integration between Ajax-based DreamFace and Adobe Flex and brings value to both communities by allowing developers to combine powerful features from each.   “DreamFace-Fx is the best of both worlds, a win-win for Adobe users and developers and for the DreamFace Interactive Community with Flex providing one of the best RIA experiences on the market today, enhanced by DreamFace’s revolutionary Web 2.0 features, like user-profile driven personalization and user-defined DataWidget Interactions.”, comments Olivier Poupeney.  DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Adobe Flex is open-source and free to download from our website immediately.

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