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Making Mashups Using Adobe Flex

posted by Satri on Friday October 27, @11:40AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the sometimes-you-need-that-flexibility dept.
Web Mapping
Both Rise and Shout and All Points Blog links to a story on using Adobe Flex for making mashups. From the article: "One of the things that attracted us to Flex is the fact that it's a Java-based Web application. You can run it in Apache Tomcat; just take the .war file and drop it in the webapps directory and voila. [...] Another of Flex's strong points is the integrated support of Web services."

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  • by ESRI!

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    by Anonymous Voxel on Friday October 27, @02:13PM (#1054)
    It's worth noting - it's by an ESRI guy.

  • Not just Java

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    by Ross (805) on Friday October 27, @02:47PM (#1055)
    Just thought I'd point out that JDJ should have said - it *can* be Java based, no mention of the fact that it can also be PHP, Ruby, or .Net based on the backend. You could even just download static XML if you wanted to (or REST, or SOAP).