企业应用方面的：Collaboration in the Enterprise: Flex and Flash Communication Server Rise to the Challenge
Peter Ent
Senior Support Engineer, Flex
This article is reprinted courtesy of MX Developer's Journal, a SYS-CON Media publication.
The challenge of enterprise-level collaboration is to make data sharing effective and to keep costs down. Applications built with C++ or Java must be delivered to the users’ desktops along with some piece of the collaboration software. That can be a headache for IT departments since it is another set of files to deploy, upgrade, and test.
For me, collaboration has a broad meaning: two or more applications running on distinct computers sharing data. There is usually some sort of middleware connecting them: software that moves the data from one location to another.
After spending nearly 10 years in the financial services arena, I can tell you that enterprise applications are highly collaborative affairs. Traders need to know current stock prices; orders for buying and selling equities flow across the internet; conversations between counter parties take place in real-time around the world 24/7.
IT departments in the financial services industry have been reluctant to place their bread-and-butter applications onto the web because the means to push information onto the user's desktop has not been practical. Java applets, which can use Java Messaging Services, have appeared from time to time, but their large downloads and browser-compatibility issues have dissuaded IT from heavy investment.
Now the combination of Macromedia Flex and Macromedia Flash Communication Server make it possible for a new generation of web applications to take on the collaborative mantle and challenge traditional desktop applications. IT departments finally have the combination of rapid development, simple deployment, small download, and integrated collaboration, they have long sought. After all, most PCs already have the Flash Player and that is all you need; there is no additional software required. IT departments can deploy their collaborative applications to their web and application servers; the users’ browsers do the rest.
This article shows you how to build a simple collaborative application in Flex that uses Flash Communication Server's shared remote objects.
Peter Ent
Senior Support Engineer, Flex
This article is reprinted courtesy of MX Developer's Journal, a SYS-CON Media publication.
The challenge of enterprise-level collaboration is to make data sharing effective and to keep costs down. Applications built with C++ or Java must be delivered to the users’ desktops along with some piece of the collaboration software. That can be a headache for IT departments since it is another set of files to deploy, upgrade, and test.
For me, collaboration has a broad meaning: two or more applications running on distinct computers sharing data. There is usually some sort of middleware connecting them: software that moves the data from one location to another.
After spending nearly 10 years in the financial services arena, I can tell you that enterprise applications are highly collaborative affairs. Traders need to know current stock prices; orders for buying and selling equities flow across the internet; conversations between counter parties take place in real-time around the world 24/7.
IT departments in the financial services industry have been reluctant to place their bread-and-butter applications onto the web because the means to push information onto the user's desktop has not been practical. Java applets, which can use Java Messaging Services, have appeared from time to time, but their large downloads and browser-compatibility issues have dissuaded IT from heavy investment.
Now the combination of Macromedia Flex and Macromedia Flash Communication Server make it possible for a new generation of web applications to take on the collaborative mantle and challenge traditional desktop applications. IT departments finally have the combination of rapid development, simple deployment, small download, and integrated collaboration, they have long sought. After all, most PCs already have the Flash Player and that is all you need; there is no additional software required. IT departments can deploy their collaborative applications to their web and application servers; the users’ browsers do the rest.
This article shows you how to build a simple collaborative application in Flex that uses Flash Communication Server's shared remote objects.
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