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Rich Internet Application

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Applications in the Enterprise

MAINFRAME

REAC

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Local

Global

RICHText UI Integrated media GUI

CLIENT/SERVER

WEB APPLICATIONS

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RICH INTERNETAPPLICATIONS

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Why Do Intuitive User Experiences Ma�er?

ForresterAugust 7, 2009�e State Of Enterprise IT Budgets: 2009by Heidi Lo and Andrew Bartels

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Rich User Experiences: Opportunities for internal users

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Rich User Experiences: Opportunities for internal users

5 mins 20 secs

Increase productivity & improve decision making

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NATO

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NATO

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NATO

From system-centric views, to user-centric applications.

Productive users Productive developers

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Design the new generation of Enterprise applications

Productivity by design


Flash Platform - A complete system for web innovation



97%Flash Player 10 (March 2010)

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Singular experience, Multiple devicesEnable consumers to engage with rich Internet experiences seamlessly across any device, anywhere.

The Open Screen Project

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Technology Partners

Open Screen Project: more than 70 partners

Content Partners

10.1

ADOBE AIR 2.0

Out of the browserO�ine/Online sync (salesForce)Invoke OS Native ProcessesEmbed your own Java librariesSoon on smartphones



ADOBE FLEX 4


What is Flex and how it works

Flash Builder IDE

Flex SDK

Flex Class Library

MXML ActionScript

Compile

SOAP HTTP/S AMF/S RTMP/S

Web Server

Existing Applications & Infrastructure

J2EE Application Server

LC Data ServicesXML/HTTP

REST

SOAP Web Services

Browser

Flash Player

ADOBE FLEX 4



BEST RIA WORKFLOW

FLASH BUILDER 4FLASH CS5 FLASH CATALYST CS5

DESIGNERS DEVELOPERS


Show me the code

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From static design artwork to a RIA connected to a java backend



Flex and Java developers


Learn a new language ?

FAST and FUN


Agile development ?

Keep your tools and methodologies

JavaUnit and FlexUnitJavaPMD and FlexPMD

MAVEN, ANTMVC frameworks

Hudson, Sonar reportsFlexCover, FlexCPD, load tests


Large-scale systems ?

Leading framework for Enterprise RIA

Adobe J2EE libraries


How to learn Flex ?

Free online trainings

www.FLEX.org

Design/Deviterations

PresentationLayer

Services exposure

Business layer

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Productive development cycles

De�nition Delivery

Long and painful development cycles.User is involved at the end of the process.�e presentation steps start a�er backend steps.60% of IT applications fail because of poor user adoption.

CLASSIC IT development cycle (system-centric apps)

Services exposure

Business layer

De�nitionDelivery

Roles: design, business layer, presentation layerFunctional and technical speci�cations from the designGuarantee user adoption

OPTIMIZED RIA development cycle (user-centric apps)

USERS

Design/Usersiterations

PresentationLayer

Design/Deviterations

USERS

Up to 50% fasterMinimize iterationsSuccessful deliveries

USERS

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JAVA rockstar

JAVA + FLEX rockstar




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Michaël ChaizeFlash Platform Evangelist

My blog: www.RIAgora.com

@mchaize