NetBeans engineering managers Jeff Jullion-Ceccarelli and Martin Ryzl offer a tour of NetBeans IDE 6.9, including a demo of the new JavaFX Composer.

ZK-ZTL is an open source tool which can automatically test the ZK Framework with jUnit and Selenium frameworks. ZK is the leading open source Ajax and Mobile Java framework. This video show hot to use Selenium IDE to test ZK applications without the need for a UUID generator.

PrimeFaces is an open source library for JSF with 60+ rich set of UI components and a lightweight Ajax framework making complex RIA applications a no-brainer to implement. Additional TouchFaces subproject provides a mobile UI kit for developing iPhone applications with JSF and Java. This talk covers everything about PrimeFaces family and it’s subprojects featuring UI Components, Ajax Push, Mobile Application Development with JSF, tracing and more.
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This session is a survey of implementing BlazeDS with your Flex applications. You will get a good mix of discussion and code, so at least you stay awake. BlazeDS is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex® and Adobe AIR™ applications for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.

Aditionnal resources:
* Tutorial: Creating Flex Builder Projects that Use Server Technologies
* Article: 13 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex and BlazeDS
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As web developers, we live in an arranged marriage with JavaScript. What is a Rubyist to do? Use JavaScript as a compile target? Abstract it away on the server? With JRuby, we can embrace the shared language of the web in a compelling way, building reusable libraries that work across the client-server boundary. By bridging Ruby to JavaScript using Rhino, we gain shared databases, including their indexing strategies. We gain remote model discovery and shared client/server validation. We gain a shared query language. And because it is JavaScript, we gain …

This screencast walks through the basics of integrating Flex 4 and Java.
http://www.jamesward.com/videos/flex_java.html

PrimeFaces is an open source library for JSF featuring 50+ rich set of UI components and a lightweight ajax framework making complex RIA applications a no-brainer to implement. Additional TouchFaces subproject provides a mobile UI kit for developing IPhone applications with JSF and Java. This talk also covers everything about PrimeFaces family and it’s subprojects including UI Components, TouchFaces, Optimus and FacesTrace.

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