ApacheCon NA 2010 Session

Building complex and modular RIAs with OSGi and Flex

• François Fornaciari
• Fri, 05 November 2010 16:30
• No Materials Available
• osgi felix

This session will present the main design patterns for building Rich Internet Applications using both OSGi and Flex. After a brief introduction to Flex, a framework for developing rich and complex interfaces, we will see how the client-side can interact seamlessly with an OSGi backend. Then we will study the different ways of handling communication through both OSGi service calls and event-based messages. A rapid comparison between existing open source integration frameworks will be made before diving into the "AMF3 to OSGi" project, the one we have chosen. In a second part, we will see how a Flex application can be split into small modules which can be easily loaded and unloaded at runtime by leveraging the OSGi deployment layer. In concrete terms, a modular Flex application will become a set of autonomous bundles, each providing a part of the interface and its associated business logic. At the end of this presentation, a demo presenting a device manager application will be shown. The solution presented during this session will be fully based on Apache Felix components for the OSGi stack.