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Christophe Coenraets
Adobe
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Background Information
- Using Flex in a Portal Environment
- Integration Scenarios
- Technical Implementation
- Summary
Using Macromedia Flex in a Portal Environment
Portals greatly facilitate the aggregation of content in an integrated user interface. However, portlets are typically rendered in HTML and therefore inherit the limitations of HTML for building applications. These limitations include a page refreshes, stateless clients, lack of smart client-side data manipulation, limited number of user interface components, and so forth.
Portal customers are increasingly looking for solutions that provide their portals—and applications in general—with a more engaging user experience that overcomes the limitations of HTML.
Macromedia Flex is a presentation server that addresses this requirement and allows developers to build a new generation of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that combine the usability of desktop applications with the reach of traditional web applications. You can use Flex to render the user interface of portlets and greatly improve the user experience within a portal.
This white paper describes how you can provide a rich front end for your portal applications using the Flex presentation server.
Get more information on Macromedia Flex
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About the author
Christophe Coenraets is a Technical Evangelist for Adobe where he focuses on rich Internet applications and enterprise integration. He has been working on Flex since the early days of the product in 2003. In his previous role at Macromedia, Christophe worked on JRun, the company's J2EE application server. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe was managing Java and Internet applications evangelism at Sybase. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 15 years. He blogs at http://coenraets.org.
