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Presentation: "Flex and Air in the Trenches: 6 Months of Real World Enterprise Experiences"

Time: Wednesday 14:15 - 15:15

Location: Cornell

Abstract:

What are Flex and Air's strengths? Where are the warts and issues in using it for everyday application development?

This session will seek to answer those questions by detailing the use of Flex and Air over the course of the last 6 months as a key piece of a platform for an online gaming company.

It will cover the RIA framework's benefits such as rapid application development as well as weaknesses such as lack of adequate load testing support.

The session will also explore how Flex/Air map to common enterprise concepts including dependency injection, unit testing, and the model view controller pattern.

Scott Delap, Author, Desktop Java Live, Rich Client Solutions, Inc

Scott Delap, Author, Desktop Java Live

Scott Delap is president of Rich Client Solutions, Inc. which focuses on assisting companies in the development and maintenance of rich client applications.

He specializes in training, design, implementation, and performance tuning of applications built using technologies such as Flex, OpenLaszlo, Ajax, Swing, SWT, Eclipse RCP, and Spring.

Scott is a frequent presenter at conferences such as JavaOne and No Fluff Just Stuff. He won a Java Rockstar Award for his 2006 JavaOne presentation on Swing Threading. Scott is also the lead Java Editor for InfoQ.com.