WebORB Blog: Back home from 360Flex

The conference is over and I can't wait for the next one. It was a great event with very little agenda pulled by any big and mighty corporate forces. The sessions I managed to attend were very informative. Unfortunately I had to leave early due to a family emergency. I gave a presentation on "Building Flex Apps Faster with WebORB" and demonstrated a few latest features including the new WebORB Data Management for Flex (WDMF). The demonstration was received very well and people loved the new stuff. Harris presented on Flex and .NET integration. Since I spent very little time in PowerPoint and focused mostly on the code and the product, I will not be publishing my slides, but instead will re-record the demo with Camtasia and post it here. We are planning to release WDMF by the end of this month.

Some interesting things I learned:

'Borneo' - the new Flex Data Services release (FDS 2.5) will focus on scalability and performance improvements
Borneo will also include a new feature enabling developers to code SQL queries directly in data-management-config.xml. Client applications will be able to invoke the queries using the DataService API. This looks a lot like a variation of a stored procedure invocation. It appears to be step forward in solving some of the development challenges associated with the FDMS approach.
FDS soon to be renamed to LiveCycle Data Services