Archive for May 2010
Got Ideas or suggestions to improve LCDS/BlazeDS
Adobe just created Adobe Lab Ideas, a place for you to suggest new ideas and provide feedback. You can find more details here: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/05/adobe_recently_released_a_new.html
If you have suggestions for new features or have feedback for LiveCycle Data Services or BlazeDS, please post them here
-Anil
Flash Applications in Mobile devices
With the announcement of Flash Player 10.1 and Air 2 for Android, you can now deploy applications developed using Flex and AIR to your mobile device.
Christophe Coenraets has created a couple of interesting applications
- Real-time trader desktop: This application uses the real-time data streaming in LCDS and Flex to simulate real time market updates and trading capabilities.
- Employee Directory Application: Demonstrates using the offline storage, integration with the Phone, SMS, email etc.
These were Desktop based applications that were ported to run on the mobile device. The UI were only changed to make it easier for mobile users to use these applications.
Data push in Rich Internet Flash Applications
The messaging infrastructure is extremely powerful allowing you to create very interesting data-push applications.
Check out these applications:
Using your phone as a Remote control: The phone acts as a remote control sending messages to manage a plane in an AIR application running.
How fast is Flash player for handling real-time data push applications? - This application demonstrates that you can receive as much as 2000 messages per second to a single client. You can do that with really low latencies.
Summary:
Real-time data push can be very powerful. How you use it is completely up to you. We recently released performance benchmark for LCDS. If you are developing data push application – this is a must read.
Using the new version of LCDS, we were able to push 400,000 messages per second with an average latency of less than 15 ms. We ran this for 5 days.
With the new version of LCDS, we have included a load test tool with the product. The load test tool is written in Java and allows you to simulate simultaneous Flash player instances.
