* Welcome Satish Kore

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

This week, we're delighted to have Satish Kore helping to answer questions about the new book Flex 3 with Java. See the summary of contents online.

The promotion starts Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 and will end on Friday, November 6th 2009.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Packt.

Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing.

[Ramu Malur S R]

Hi Satish,

Congratulations on your new book

Integrating Flex with the Java Server side components is perhaps the most sought after topic in Flex space.
I guess its mainly because of the wide spread usage of Java in enterprise world and ofcourse the Rich UI you can create using Flex.

What type of Server side Java components are you targetting in this book?
Do you cover WebServices, Servlets, EJBs and POJO?

- Ramu

[Vishnu Vardhan Reddy T.D.]

Hi Satish,
Congratulation on your book "flex 3 with java" promotion.
This is vishnu,i have been working on flex last one year.We are waiting for a good book for being thought on flex and java integration.We have been integrating flex wioth struts framework.

What this book contains basically only on integration of flex with java or basics of flex too?
Can a beginner can learn flex based on this book?
Will this book contain a sample project how to be done and how to be deployed?
With Regards,
Vishnu

[Bear Bibeault]

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing.

Please start new topics to ask questions.

[Maneesh Godbole]

Welcome Satish.
Nice to have you here

[Satish Kore]

Thank you all for the warm welcome and I appreciate your interest in Flex and this book. I will try my best to answer each one of your queries.

Thank you again.

[Narendra shah]

Satish can you please tell me that if i am new to flex ,then is it possible that i will able to get basics and detailed infromation in your book?

Congratulation for such book. I am looking such a book which cover flex as well as java within that.

[Satish Kore]

Following is the one of the commonly asked question that I would like to answer in here,

Q. Does this book help beginners to learn Adobe Flex 3 basics?

A. Yes, very much. This book is targeted to the developers who want to get started with Adobe Flex 3 programming. If you read table of content you would see that I have covered all important aspects of Flex and ActionScript starting from basics to advanced. Have a look at the http://www.packtpub.com/flex-3-with-java/book and http://www.amazon.com/Flex-3-Java-Satish-Kore/dp/1847195342#reader_1847195342 for detailed information.

Thanks,

[Narendra shah]

Thanks a lot for your quick response. I will look this book here in Ahmedabad.

[Sudheendra Singh]

Hi Satish,
Congratulations on your new book.
I am new to Flex and have been trying to get Flex to connect to our Webservice application. But apparently it works with Axis2 and we have Axis 1.4. Any idea if there is a compatibility with Axis 1.4 or is there any workarounds?

[Muhammad Saifuddin]

Welcome To Javaranch.

[mikey strauss]

hello Satish welcome
well i never used flex i don't realy know how it works do you think the book is suitble for someone like me???

[Satish Kore]

Hi Mikey,

Answer to your question is "Yes", this book will give you everything that you need to start programming in Flex 3. However if you need integration with Java then some basic knowledge of Java is expected.

All the best for your Flex learning.

Thanks,

[Thomas Bennett]

Satish,
Welcome to Java Ranch and on your new book

[Raghavan Muthu]

Hello Satish,

Welcome to JavaRanch for the Book Promo section Nice to have you here!

[Gaurav Sain]

Hi Satish,
Welcome to JavaRanch Forum. I am a Flex developer and I would be looking forward to buy this book. All the best to you for the book release.

Regards,
Gaurav

[Paras Artwani]

Welcome Satish, since from few weeks M searching for some good means to learn Flex, also tried some books and videos like that of Total Training but not able to grasp too much.Being a PHP and Java programmer, would like to master skills on Flex.Hope to see something new innovation in your book just like Head First.


Regards
Paras Artwani

[Barry Raczkowski]

Hi Satish;

I was wondering if you could look forward a little and give me an idea of what will be changing in Flex 4. I am real new to flex, I just finished an Adobe course on flex, and noticed that there was no support for smaller lcd screens, like on a cell phone. I know that JavaFX has the ability to port gui built for the web to a smaller phone lcd , and I did not see that support in Flex 3. Also, I noticed in your book that you discuss BlazeDS, I have been building restFUL interfaces as was wondering how well BlazeDS integrates with JERSEY. Flex is really a cool and I hope to start implementing it soon.

Your book looks great.

Thank you

Barry Raczkowski

[Satish Kore]

Paras,
I am sure that you will find this book interesting and it will help you to get started with Flex programming.

Thanks,

[Satish Kore]

Hi Barry Raczkowski,
There are few major changes between Flex 3 and 4 such as Skinning, Namespace, Component architecture etc. to know more about it visit http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4sdk_whatsnew.html and http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3and4_differences.html.

Adobe is working on light weight Flex framework for Mobile devices that can be used for developing mobile applications but this project is in initial stage and expected to be available in 2010. Have a look http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/mobile/

Thanks,

[Ankit Tripathi]

Dear Sir,
I welcome you on the promotion of this book.
Would you please tell me what is flux and how it is integrated with java?

[Barry Raczkowski]

It looks like the smaller device version of flex will have to be developed as a seperate project. Will the code be interchangable like Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex is.

[Damien Gallagher]

Will this book provide enough information for those who want to get certified in flex?