Buzzy And Me

I had a pleasant chat with Maijaliisa Burkert of Sun Microsystems yesterday about my experience with developing Rich Internet Applications using JavaFX.

Among other things, we talked about my winning application at the Code JavaFX India contest, improvements in JavaFX 1.2, the new JavaFX Authoring tool and the exciting possibilities offered by JavaFX Mobile.

Catch the full details at Student Views & Reviews blog or listen to the podcast using the player embedded below.

About 5 months ago, I made a Flex/AIR application called Stockastica. It was a virtual stock trading simulation. Subsequently, I ported it to Silverlight 2 Beta 1. The first beta was just released and I was eager to see what I could do with it. It wasn’t a very complicated app. Only basic web services were used. I made the app and forgot about it.

Today, I decided to port the app to beta 2. It is quite daunting when you start out. But like all things, you only need to find the right resources to help you get started. Probably the most helpful one was a post on /dev/arthur. It solved almost all my problems.

If you are hosting the app on IIS7, don’t forget to add a .xap extension with a mime type of application/x-silverlight. Porting apps that use sockets was a bit troublesome. A detailed description of the changes between beta 1 and 2 is available here.

A screencast of the ported application…

Silverlight Stockastica Demo from Chinmay Garde on Vimeo.
Regards,
Buzzy