Daniel R.

Rough draft notes

Panel: Dave Gruber, Tim Buntel, Phil Costa, Jeffry Houser, Todd Prekaski, and Paul Reilly

Q: When can Flash be multi-threaded?
A: Not for awhile. Tricky to do. Not in 10.

Q: What more will be in Flex for designer work flow?
A: Thermo is a new designer tool for converting wire frame into an interactive application. Also giving them tools to handle behavior. Improving skinning models and more declarative. Ely gave talk about this, should be up on MAX website.

Q: Best resource for a designer to get up to speed on Flex?
A: The Adobe Developer center. Grouped by background. Flex Cookbook. And watch for Thermo. Programming Flex is a great for an understanding of Flex in general.

Q: Any plans for different LiveCycle polling options?
A: Server side polling channel configuration (requires thread per socket). LCDS 2.5.1 should have examples about how to mimic real time latency. RTMP is best for non-blocking IO.

Q: Any ability to expand HTTP components to support additional REST capabilities beyond GET and POST?
A: Short answer yes. Flash player is limited by Flash and plug-in APIs. Workaround is to use the LCDS proxy.

Q: How best to handle authenticated remoting?
A: Use a session token. Usually rely on cookies with HTTP.

Q: Why use J2EE session ID as opposed to CF token ids?
A: J2EE session ID are superior to CF token ids.

Q: Any plans to include component that can display web pages in Flex?
A: Support is there for AIR. Can use frames to overlay SWF to get the behavior. No current plans since it requires Flash changes. Look at Drumbeat.

Q: Any plans to have .NET AMF tier?
A: No plans for .NET version of LCDS. Adobe is using a 3rd party Midnight Coders to provide similar services.

Q: Updated version of Cairngorm?
A: Run by Adobe Consulting. Best way to find out more is use their mailing list. Announced at MAX a data driven site version.

Q: ColdFusion application with CFCs for Remoting, what needs to change for AIR?
A: Hopefully nothing! Compiling against the services config does require a little tweaking when using AIR since config isn't parameterized in AIR. Pier (one of the sponsors) gave a talk on that behavior.

Q: Any mechanism to provide synchronous event handling?
A: AIR provides both synchronous and asynchronous. Log enhancement request against Player.

Q: Better Flash and Flex component integration?
A: On the radar to make it better. Flash to Flex is there. Flex to Flash isn't there yet. The component model conversion is a problem.

Q: Flex Builder 4?
A: Looking to users for ideas. Broadening audience that uses it. Let them know if you want to be involved in product planning. Put feature requests into open Flex bug system.

Q: How to synchronize SQLite to MySQL?
A: LCDS may do something in the future. ColdFusion at MAX showed some of the online/offline connection data management.

Q: Additional SQLite support for full SQL syntax?
A: Frozen for AIR 1.0.

Q: Status of code coverage tools?
A: Adobe consulting was looking to build an open source project but don't know the status. Plumbing has been added to player. Should be available soon.

Q: Ted Patrick commented about AMF being released?
A: No.

Q: Issues with profiler on 64-bit.
A: Player doesn't work on 64-bit machines, everything runs in 32-bit mode. Does work on Vista and Leopard.

Q: Linux support for Flex Builder?
A: Alpha of Flex Builder for Linux announced and released at MAX. Development ongoing.