http://www.devpointer.net/ Copyright (C)2006 DevPointer DevPointer provides an index of articles, tutorials, faqs, and other online resources for developers. craig@k5n.us craig@k5n.us http://www.devpointer.net/redirect.php?id=2429 Dustin Marx follows up his introduction to combining Flex and Java EE with a look at more ways to connect your Flex front end to a Java enterprise server. Learn how to connect Flex and Java EE via proxied or unproxied HTTP or Web services, and how to bind Flex objects to Java code on the server side. http://www.devpointer.net/redirect.php?id=2430 Transitioning from an object-oriented to a resource-oriented perspective means letting go of your ideas about how things should work. Give it a try with this introduction to NetKernel: a URI-based microkernel environment that relaxes object bindings to enable more scalable and maintainable RESTful systems. http://www.devpointer.net/redirect.php?id=2431 Need perspective on the rapid evolution of client-side Java? 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This lack of an orderly package-visibility relationship has made life difficult for a number of programmers trying to balance organizational needs against practical concerns. In this entry of "The Open Road," Elliotte Rusty Harold takes a look at how JSR 294 ("superpackages"), intended to be part of Java SE 7, proposes to fix this problem. http://www.devpointer.net/redirect.php?id=2051 JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON for short, is a lightweight data-interchange format which may prove to be a viable alternative to XML for IT developers. 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