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FlowUI Open Source RIA Enterprise Mashup Framework
The FlowUI Open Source RIA Enterprise Mashup Framework is an open source software development framework for building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that can integrate or “mashup” data and services from multiple sources, both from within an enterprise and from external service providers. Implemented using Adobe Flex, FlowUI handles all the low-level user interface details to simplify the creation of clean, easy-to-use enterprise applications that can run in a browser across all the major deployment platforms including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
Benefits
Enterprise
- Estimated savings of 50% of the time and cost that would otherwise be spent on UI development. The time and cost for UI development typically represents around 50% of the total time and cost to implement an application.
- Reduced time and cost for QA and testing through the use of a production-proven open source application framework.
- Improved code maintainability from a highly modular, standardized coding methodology.
- Customizable look-and-feel and processing.
- Transparent integration of data and services from multiple sources, both internal and external to the enterprise.
- Reduced training time from a consistent, easy-to-use interface throughout all enterprise applications.
Service Provider
- All of the enterprise benefits.
- Users are able to customize the application without having to burden the service platform with complicated platform-based customization functionality.
- Increased customer base potential since separating the user interface and the backend services makes it easier to combine and integrate the services and retarget them into new markets.
- Applications can be used both on-line as well as off-line by leveraging Adobe AIR.
User
- Data and services from multiple sources are presented in an integrated, user-centric manner rather than by multiple different interfaces.
- Improved rich user experience.
Update 1.2.50 of Core Library released
An update to the core library was added.
It includes a Time Zone fix. This fix consists in adjusting the Date fields of the request being made to the time zone offset off the server that has the web service. This was necessary because the dates being sent arrived without time zone so the web service converted the time to it's local time zone. If the web service and the client had different time zones the time was scrambled. So by adjust the date before the request, the conversion problem is solved. To fix this, the YRequestConverter class has the static attribute timeZoneOffset, which has to be assigned with the difference in minutes between the web service date and UTC date. For example, if the web service is on a GMT-4 time zone, the timeoffset value is 360. If is in the GMT+4, the value is -360.
The other update is the separation of the class YSearchPopUpWindow. This class was renamed YQuerySearchPopUpWindow because it uses the YQueryService to make the search. Meanwhile, a new YSearchPopUpWindow class was created that does not have the search logic in it. The intention of this class is to be extended to create a custom search pop up.
FlowUI Core Library 1.2.50
Size: 1.28 MB
md5_file hash: ee91d9239c7b7e0360cf12a51276048f
First released: Fri, 07/24/2009 - 19:33
Last updated: Fri, 07/24/2009 - 19:37
Revision: 50
Author: brucekim
Date: 3:18:52 PM, Saturday, July 24, 2009
Message:
Added the Time Zone fix, separated the search popups in two classes YQuerySearchPopUpWindow (before was YSearchPopUpWindow, uses the YQueryService to do the search) and YSearchPopUpWindow (modified existing class to not use the YQueryService and be able to be extended).
Modified : /trunk/flowui-lib/src/org/flowui/lib/services/YRequestConverter.as
Modified : /trunk/flowui-lib/src/org/flowui/lib/services/YWebService.as
Modified : /trunk/flowui-lib/src/org/flowui/lib/view/forms/YForm.as
Added : /trunk/flowui-lib/src/org/flowui/lib/view/forms/YQuerySearchPopUpWindow.as
Modified : /trunk/flowui-lib/src/org/flowui/lib/view/forms/YSearchPopUpWindow.as
Update 1.2.43 of Core Library released
A small update to the Core Library was just released to correct the YDataFormatter and YDateInput to properly use the date settings in the lib_SharedResources.properties file.
BlazeDS operational on demo server
BlazeDS is once again operational on the demo server so you can use it when building and testing the Sample Application. Enjoy!
New FAQ Entry About Form Field Ids
If you were wondering about how FlowUI determines how to automatically display form fields based on their ids read the new FAQ entry titled "How does FlowUI determine how to configure a form field for display?" under the "Pages & Forms" section. Still have questions? Please post them in the forums!
360 Flex is coming up!
We're one of the sponsors of the 360 Flex Conference in San Jose this August 18-20. It will be a great get together of the Flex community. We'll be there and we hope to meet some of you.
Here's the flier that we will be handing out.
Our forums were spammed
Our forums were spammed with adult postings which we have cleaned up. As part of that process we removed a number of questionable looking accounts so if your account is missing please recreate it. We have enabled a more complex graphical Captcha challenge for the registration process so hopefully this will reduce the problem going forward.
New FAQ entries
New FAQ entries were added to answer recent questions that were raised about data types and modifying the Portal layout and if you are interested you can check them out under the FAQ.
FlowUI now supports RemoteObjects!
Support for RemoteObjects has been added to FlowUI and a document explaining how to build a complete sample application using this functionality has been posted to the site, Building a Sample Application. Enjoy!
