Flex and E-Commerce

I have recently created a e-commerce build that works on XML httprequests.
Currently i have created the XML feed creators for Oscommerce.
You can see a working demo here
Let me know what you think, this is my first post on this forum so hello to everyone!

Great! Thanks Kenny. So the approach to making the gateway
connections would be similar to working with Actionscript in that I
would still be calling server-side scripts to handle the back-end
work?
Anyone have a recco on which technology would integrate best
with Flex AND be a great solution for an E-Commerce site? Can
someone provide their opinion on the ideal approach?

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Hi everyone,
Where can I find the document : Extensionsguide SAP Development and E-Commerce 5.0 ?
If someone has a copy, here is my email address : [email protected]
Thanks & Regards
Hassan

Hi,
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try this...
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Hi,
you could use XMLSocket or Socket classes depending on the
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Sharing code between Flex and AIR versions using library project

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<![CDATA[
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]]>
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Update:
Ok...I finally figured out that by replacing the tokens in the services-config.xml file with the physical address of the server everything works.
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Getting Started with Flex and Java RPC for Free?

Good Morning,
Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to post- I'm
just having trouble wrapping my head around what is and what isn't
available for free in the Adobe Flex world.
I've been working on an application for the last few months
using Open Laszlo (
http://www.openlaszlo.org/),
but I've been running into frustrations with their lack of
up-to-date documentation, and I've found it difficult to bring new
people into the project, since the set of users who know it is so
small.
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enough to hold me there.
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alternative- I'm comfortable paying $500 for the IDE-
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everything points to Flex Data services, which is now part of some
larger package costing tens of thousands of dollars.
I don't need advanced messages, or data synchronization, as
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"How
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broadly. Given that the message is from over a year ago, I thought
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Finally, where can I purchase the Charting components? The
ability to create charts such as
this
overcome a decent price barrier.
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can provide.

quote:
Originally posted by:
cunparis2day
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L.

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obj.y = calculatedY;
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We have one application which is using oracle’s Service oriented Architecture (SoA) suite. Currently, there is a debate on the technology for UI in the new architecture that will be rich, easy to maintain, scalable and integrates well with SOA suite. We have two options one is Flex and other is Oracle ADF. UI part contains number of graphs, tabular and charts data. So it would be great if any one suggest which technolgy will be better for UI point of view. Thanks in advance.

Hi,
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http://download.oracle.com/otn_hosted_doc/jdeveloper/11gdemos/ADF112/ADF112.html
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We have one application which is using oracle’s Service oriented Architecture (SoA) suite. Currently, there is a debate on the technology for UI in the new architecture that will be rich, easy to maintain, scalable and integrates well with SOA suite.
We have two options one is Flex and other is Oracle ADF.
UI part contains number of graphs, tabular and charts data. So it would be great if any one suggest which technolgy will be better for UI point of view.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I looked at the demo
http://download.oracle.com/otn_hosted_doc/jdeveloper/11gdemos/ADF112/ADF112.html
It's interesting.
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1- Before Oracle, Sun failed with UI technologies: there was AWT then Swing then Java FX. None of them was a star. The only place where Sun really won the UI war is the Bluray Disc format.
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