Christophe Coenraets, Flex Lead, Adobe

Christophe Coenraets is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe. He focuses on rich Internet applications and enterprise integration. Before joining Macromedia and Adobe, Christophe was the head of Java and J2EE Technical Evangelism at Sybase, where he started working on Java Enterprise projects in 1996.

Before joining Sybase in the US, Christophe held different positions at Powersoft in Belgium, including Principal Consultant for PowerBuilder, and Manager of the Professional Services organization. Before joining Powersoft, Christophe worked as a developer and architect on several retail and BPM projects. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 10 years.

Presentation: "Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise w/ Flex and Apollo"

Track: Solution Track 2

Time: Thursday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Wordsworth Room

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Presentation: "Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise with Flex and Apollo"

Track: Ajax & Browser-Based Applications

Time: Friday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Fleming Room

Abstract:

For the last two years, the industry has shifted its attention back to the client and the user interface. Noticeable progress has already been made, putting pressure on IT organizations to deliver better user experiences.

The incremental improvements that we are witnessing today are just the first steps on a path towards "high definition" user interfaces: real time data, in-context collaboration, vector graphics-powered expressiveness, rich media integration, and offline capabilities will soon become standard attributes of any client application.

In this session, Christophe will introduce you to Flex, a complete solution for building this new breed of applications that combine the richness of desktop applications with the reach of web applications. Combined with Apollo (the code name for Adobe's new cross-platform client), Flex applications can run inside or outside the browser.

Christophe will provide an in-depth overview of the Flex programming model and focus on the integration with existing Enterprise infrastructure (Spring, Hibernate, Portals, etc)

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