Name

François Fornaciari

Title

Consultant

Organization

Zenika

E-mail

francois.fornaciari@zenika.com

Title

Building complex and modular RIAs with OSGi and Flex

Overview

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.

Bio

François Fornaciari is a Java EE / RIA consultant and trainer at Zenika. Over the last three years, he has participated to the refactoring of the new version of the JOnAS application server inside the Bull R&D team where he was in charge of the modularity architecture based on OSGi and the service an demand and deployment features. In addition, he has given some talks on OSGi and Java EE integration. François has also taken part to the design and development of an RFID middleware integrating both Java EE and OSGi technologies for tracking, collecting and sending data to aim at generating reports. Now he works on various cutting edge Java and RIA projects for many clients and promotes OSGi in end-user applications.