Open Source Alternatives to LCDS: Clear Toolkit

Time: 4:00pm - 4:50pm

Speaker: Yakov Fain

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Development of enterprise Flex/Java rich Internet applications benefits from using automated data integration solutions and productivity tools. Currently Adobe offers LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3.  While LCDS is certainly a great piece of software for those who are looking to support thousands concurrent users via the most efficient communication protocols, its high licensing cost makes LCDS not affordable for the vast majority of the enterprise applications let alone small businesses and startups. If you are looking for an alternative open source and/or free solution to integrate Flex and Java EE layers, consider using GraniteDS, WebOrb, and Clear Toolkit. The first two products offer their own implementation of the AMF protocol, and Clear Toolkit uses the AMF libraries that come with BlazeDS .

During this presentation you’ll get familiar with the Clear Toolkit process of development of  a FLEX RIA that will illustrate automated CRUD, ANT, and DTO generation, data synchronization with BlazeDS, PDF generation on the client, hierarchical data collections, performance improvements with BlazeDS, Web reporting and more.