Last week I've presented an eSeminar via Connect about Flash Catalyst.
Flash Catalyst will change the way designers and developers will work together to create Rich Interactive applications.

You can find the URL of the recorded event here: Overview on Flash Catalyst.

In this eSeminar you'll learn key features of the latest version of Flash Catalyst as well as the technologies behind the tool such as the FXG format and the Flex SDK 4.
You'll discover how to work with products such as Photoshop and Illustrator to create the look and feel and the user experience of a RIA, while automatically generating the necessary code in the background.

You can download Flash Catalyst beta 2 on the Adobe Labs.

According to the Adobe's definition, LiveCycle Data Services ES2 module is a scalable and optimized framework that abstracts the complexity of creating easy-to-use, personalized, and interactive applications. It includes a rich set of features that streamline the development, integration, and deployment of rich Internet applications (RIAs).

Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 provides significant new capabilities, including the following:

- Support for model-driven development of Flash applications, which make application development better, faster, and easier
- Secure and scalable connectivity across the DMZ with the Edge Server.
- New capabilities for developers to control and measure the quality of service of enterprise applications.

All the documentation is ready and available online:
LiveCycle Data Services ES2 version 3 Docs

You can download the LiveCycle Data Services ES2 free developer edition.

SpringSource and Comtaste have organized a free event where the new Spring 3.0 will be presented for the very first time in Italy and the integration with Flex and BlazeDS will be explored (all the detailed info here).
The event has been scheduled on Monday, November 30, 2009 from 2:45 PM - 6:00 PM (GMT+01h). The location is the awesome Link Campus - University of Malta, via Nomentana, 335 - Rome, Italy 00162.

The agenda will see two different sessions presented by SpringSource and Comtaste:

Session 1 (english) - Spring 3.0 and the new REST support, Speaker: Rossen Stoyanchev (SpringSource)

One of the major new themes of Spring 3.0 is the support for REST in Spring MVC. This talk will investigate these features from the perspective of a web application developer and discuss them in the context of JAX-RS, the Java Standard for RESTfulWeb Services. If you're familiar with JAX-RS you can relate your knowledge to Spring MVC. If you're an existing Spring MVC user can learn about major developments in the areas of data binding, validation, and type conversion as well as how Spring MVC compares to JAX-RS, a topic that's likely to come up in your organization.

Session 2 (in lingua italiana) - Integrare Spring con Flex 3, Speaker: Marco Casario (Comtaste)

SpringSource announced Spring BlazeDS Integration, a new open source project to provide tight integration between Spring and Adobe BlazeDS, Adobe’s open source server-based Java remoting and Web messaging technology.

This open source project will make it easy for Java and Spring developers to create enterprise-class rich Internet applications (RIAs) using Adobe Flex software, a cornerstone of the Adobe Flash Platform, and Spring, the de facto standard for enterprise Java.

The partecipation is free but you need to register in order to get the ticket.