Learn how to utilize and integrate key technologies from scratch in this session geared toward improving your enterprise environment. Apache Maven provides a consistent way to build, test, and deploy enterprise applications across a variety of platforms.

Find out how Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 makes it easy for you to build mobile apps for a variety of devices using the same workflow you use to build web or desktop applications today. You can now build apps to run on the Apple iOS, Google Android, and BlackBerry QNX platforms. Walk through the basic steps required in Flash Builder 4.5 to create and run a simple mobile Flex project both on the desktop and on a device. Also learn about new mobile-specific functionality in the Flex 4.5 software development kit (SDK).

Take a look at and get inspired by WebFilings, the largest enterprise application on Google App Engine, as the developers talk about how they used Flex, BlazeDS, and the cloud to create an innovative, new approach to solving an old problem. Their powerful, collaborative, cloud-based product and compelling user interface are rapidly attracting new business from Fortune 100 companies.

See how Adobe's acquisition of Day Software opens doors for developers by combining Flex with CRX, the most convenient content repository system. If you are already using Flex and wondering how you could back it up with CRX, or if you have your content in CRX and are wondering how Flex could serve as your front end, then this is the session for you. This is a practical, useful session in which actual scenarios will be built live in front of you.

Discover the principles of design that can lead to the creation of visually compelling cross-platform applications. ThRead is a collaborative project between Adobe and renowned design company Method. It is a unique reader application that allows the simultaneous consumption and organization of information, created using the newest mobile development features in the Adobe Flex SDK. We'll take you through some collaborative processes that worked for us throughout design and development.

Thinking of building a tablet application and don't have time to go native on Android, iOS, and Blackberry Tablet OS? Come learn how you can build amazing experiences across all of these platforms even faster than native. We'll look at how to support varying screen sizes, resolutions, and pixel densities, and how this thing called Adobe Creative Suite can help.

Join seasoned Flex veterans as they tackle best practices, architectures, guidelines, development processes, and workflows for building enterprise-scale applications with large teams.

Join Michael Chaize, Enterprise Platform evangelist, as he explains why tablet devices are a huge opportunity for enterprise developers, enabling them to take advantage of tablets' capabilities such as high-resolution cameras, geolocation, network connectivity, and more. He will walk through some samples combining Flex and Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Services to deliver first-class collaborative apps. He will also give you some tips on building a project that can fit on both tablet devices and smartphones.

End users today expect the same experience from the legacy systems they use in the office as the social systems they experience at home. In this session you'll learn how to extend and enhance your existing back-end applications using Flex, Adobe AIR, and Data Services to leverage legacy data sources with .NET Adapters, IIS plug-ins, or the SAP Connector for Data Services.

Learn about little-known but very useful features of Flex.

Learn new aspect-oriented programming (AOP) techniques for Flex development. This session begins with an overview of AOP fundamentals to demystify the terminology and advances to discussions on why ActionScript developers may want to utilize these new techniques. Discover the new AOP support in the wildly popular Swiz framework and how it aims to greatly reduce developer barriers by simplifying AOP. Then look at some real examples to understand how AOP works in practice.

Get insights from Flex SDK team members on the new mobile-optimized components. They'll be covering Lists, itemRenderers, and View transitions. Come learn everything you'll need to know to get your app to peak performance.

Join a panel of leading experts from enterprise solution providers Universal Mind, Ensemble, Cynergy, and EffectiveUI as they discuss how and where they position Flex and Adobe Flash as winning enterprise RIA technology solutions. Come away with strategies for pitching Flex based solutions and defending Flash as HTML5 gains momentum.

Enterprise mobile applications require complex access to backend data and resources. In this session you will learn how to use Adobe® Digital Enterprise Platform to build mobile applications leveraging AIR and AIR with native ADEP extensions, as well as completely native HTML5, Android, and iOS code.

Take a long, hard look at the state of the web, the history of Flex, and the future of the framework. These days, the web is inundated with an endless host of pundits, bloggers, and Twitter junkies upset about the uncertain future of Adobe Flash, HTML5, and native applications. Where are these technologies going? What are their strengths and weaknesses? And how does Flex fit in? This session will give several solid reasons why it's still one of the best technologies a web developer can learn.

Explore the available technologies and recommended architectures for building enterprise-scale applications with client-side Flex and server-side Java using the popular Spring framework. You'll learn the different ways to easily build robust, enterprise-class Flex applications using BlazeDS, Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, and the Spring BlazeDS Integration project.

Join the Adobe@Adobe team to gain insight and perspective on how Adobe uses its own technology. You'll get inspiration on how to leverage Adobe technology to extend internal business systems, even across mobile devices. This session will cover solutions based on Adobe AIR, Flex, the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe Online Marketing Suite.

Stay ahead of the curve and get the lowdown on the latest capabilities of the Flex Software Development Kit (SDK). The Flex SDK team has been relentlessly working to churn out releases faster than ever before. If you're interested in mobile development, this is a must see. There may even be a few surprises!

Join A@A developer Mark Ellis as he demos Vibe, Adobe's internal microblogging tool, and the technologies used to create it.

Christophe Coenraets demonstrates Financial Trader, a cross-platform enterprise financial analytics app featuring 3D charts and real-time updates, which was developed using Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform with Flash Builder.

We'll take Flex, add some garnish (parsley), mix in design patterns, and serve piping hot on multiple screens. Join developers from the Adobe@Adobe team as they take you on a whirlwind exploration of developing production multiscreen applications. You'll laugh, you'll cry — no, wait.... You'll walk away from this interactive session with practical knowledge to take your AIR applications to the next level. This is not a session on theory but on enterprise-proven techniques for delivering your AIR application across multiple screens, big and small.

Investigate Flex application development from a performance perspective and learn techniques to improve and optimize your Flex and ActionScript code. Join members of the Flex engineering team as they identify common performance pitfalls that new — and even advanced — developers run into, and share best practices for creating the most optimal Flex and ActionScript applications. We'll share tips and tricks for desktop and mobile development, as well as methodologies to identify and fix problems areas during development.

Join the expert team responsible for the FlexUnit 4 framework as we look beyond writing unit tests toward the real issue: writing testable Flex code. We'll examine the techniques needed to change functional but untestable code into cohesive classes whose functionality can be assured continually through automated unit testing. If you ever needed to know how to architect testable Flex applications, this session will prove invaluable.

Join us as we share several of the key best practices we have learned over time while building Hendrix, a large business-critical Adobe enterprise application built with Flex and Adobe LiveCycle Data Services. Hendrix was built to leverage many existing systems within Adobe IT (such as our SAP customer relationship management system and computer telephony integration system). Some of these best practices may be familiar to you, and some may not. All come from the collective experience of the people who design, develop, and operate the Hendrix application.

Join us for a session on Flex and PHP integration and some of the workflows that can streamline your work with these two technologies. You'll learn how to use the tools together (Flash Builder and Eclipse for PHP), set up a Flex/PHP project, debug Flex and PHP code using Flash Builder features and XDebug, use the data-centric development features, and leverage the Doctrine 2 PHP libraries with Flex.

Learn how the next version of the Flex SDK will enable developers to easily create applications for the desktop and mobile devices. This session will show you how you can use the new mobile features in the SDK together with familiar Flex concepts to build mobile applications. You will learn about the new mobile-specific components and capabilities being added to the Flex SDK, as well as learn tips for optimizing both the design and performance of your application as it works across different devices.

Learn about one company’s migration from Java thick client applications to rich Internet applications for powering their government customer's mission-critical workflow. This session will explore migrating complex enterprise applications from Java to Flex as well as building and deploying some of the most high-profile applications in ongoing military operations around the world today using Adobe RIA technologies. You'll find out how Intelligent Software Solutions has developed and deployed a large enterprise RIA system to support the ability to measure the success of stabilization and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hear David Bieselin, Adobe Connect Engineering Director and Gaurav Satija, Adobe Connect Sr. Manager, explain how you can take an existing Flex application (or create a new one) and offer rich collaboration features through an Adobe Connect meeting room. They will demonstrate how the free Adobe Connect Collaboration SDK lets Flex developers create views based on role, synchronize data within meetings, and communicate with other objects within the meeting environment. This is a must-see session for anyone wanting to add collaborative capabilities to a Flex application.

Learn about a broad range of tools, plug-ins, and solutions that fit into your existing enterprise development workflow and help you build large-scale, complex Flex applications. Join various Adobe ecosystem partners as they explain how to use their products with Flex, from concept and development to testing and deployment all the way to post-production diagnostics and analytics.

Join Aaron Pederson and James Polanco, Flex component development experts, as they walk you through the inner workings of the Flex framework and explain how to write extensible, rich, and highly performing components. They will cover the new Spark component and skinning architecture and how to use it correctly to build Spark components for use in Flex applications.

Hear top design professionals explain how to unlock new value hidden in complex enterprise systems through the expression of user-centric goals in design patterns. You'll learn how Adobe is converging solutions, platforms, and tools to help you better serve your customers or constituents by delivering great experiences. This session equips you with business cases as examples of current cultural shifts, as we share our user experience vision, some technology sneak peeks, and a vision for the future of enterprise applications.

Join Deepa Subramaniam, product manager for the Flex SDK, as she discusses the future direction of Flex and its related products. She will cover exciting updates being planned that will affect developers. She will discuss new features and capabilities planned for the next versions of the Flex SDK, ActionScript compiler, and MXML compiler as well as cover interesting features looming within the Flash Player virtual machine, Flash Player rendering engine, and ActionScript language.

Flex is already in use in two VMware applications in the VMware management suite: VMware View (which delivers personalized virtual desktops as a managed service) and VMware vCloud Director (which enables provisioning, deploying, and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds). Moving forward, the Flex footprint expands into VMware's broad customer base with its next-generation management console for vSphere. VMware's 25,000-plus strong partner and customer ecosystems will soon be able to leverage Flex to integrate their solutions into the VMware management UIs. Join the VMWare team to hear about how they use Flex to improve VMware product experiences.

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PNC's Virtual Wallet gives banking customers intuitive and compelling online tools to track and manage all their banking activities. The interactive application was created using Adobe Flex 3.

Fantasy Interactive's Kontain enables anyone to share their thoughts and opinions through simplified blogging and managing content on a rich-media portal. The platform was developed with Adobe Flex 3, Flash CS4 Professional, Illustrator CS4, and Photoshop CS4.

Learn why Flex is great for RIA development and how it compares with other RIA technologies. This introductory level session will provide a high-level overview of the tools, languages, and framework provided by Flex.

Learn about the tremendous benefits that cloud computing offers to enterprise and consumer-facing RIAs, and see how Adobe AIR, Flex, and Flash are positioned to work well with cloud-based deployments.

Learn how to use Flex, Acrobat, and LiveCycle to create portable, customized RIAs. Today, customers can create PDF Portfolios that leverage both SWF content and PDF and can be automatically assembled and customized using LiveCycle ES.

Take a hands-on tour of the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service. In this session, you will learn your way around the available APIs from a Flex application coder's perspective. We'll start by exploring out-of-the-box components...

See how Deutsche Telekom is using Flex and Adobe LiveCycle in combination with its enterprise systems to streamline and improve HR communications with more than 100,000 employees and retirees.

Learn about Poland's new tax application, the e-Deklaracje Desktop. With this deployment, Poland has become the second country to allow citizens to file and pay taxes online using a Flex based Adobe AIR desktop application.

Having worked on many and varied Flex applications, Jeff Tapper has had a chance to see all sorts of bad practices in use. In this session, we will look at several mistakes: common ones, amusing ones, and even ones that got the developer fired!

LiveCycle Data Services team members will present the features that make the framework the most scalable, reliable, and robust real-time messaging infrastructure available to Flex clients.

Explore the power of the List component in Flex 4, and dig deep into the layout mechanism that allows you to create new and interesting components displaying data. It is recommended that you have an understanding of the Spark architecture before attending

Learn how to design and implement Adobe LiveCycle ES in your technology stacks and enterprise applications. This session will provide a review of three recent LiveCycle ES implementations, including actual architectures and best practices.

Hear about Open-Plug's Flex Builder plug-in and mobile-optimized SDK that enables you to create rich mobile applications and deploy them with native performance across various mobile platforms.See live demonstrations of the development workflow, and more.

SAP evangelist Robert Horne will demonstrate how to create rich, Flex and AIR based data visualization dashboards using SAP BusinessObjects tools. Get an inside look at BusinessObjects Explorer, a powerful new way of gathering enterprise information.

Learn about the new features in Flex 4 from the perspective of someone who has been doing Flex 3 development. We'll discuss changes in MXML, states, effects, and CSS, as well as the new component model.

Learn how to use the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service to quickly add out-of-the-box collaboration components to your Flex applications. More importantly, discover a framework for creating custom components that include collaboration.

Explore the new and improved animation engine in Flex 4 that makes it possible to create richer and more dynamic applications. Come see how you can take advantage of the new effects and functionality, such as doing transformations in all three planes...

Learn everything you need to know to get up and running with the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service, a powerful way to add real-time social features to your Flex applications, such as live audio/video/data streaming...

See an overview of the technology behind recently released Adobe LiveCycle ES Developer Express. LiveCycle Express is an enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product that leverages Adobe LiveCycle ES and cloud-based computing services.

Learn how to comply with accessibility standards and provide access for people with disabilities within your Flex and AIR applications. This session will provide an overview of how Flash Player communicates accessibility name, role, and state information

Join fellow developers and information architects interested in going beyond the standard Flex Charting to focus on creating innovative and compelling data visualizations used to solve a wide range of data visualization challenges.

Explore new techniques in building data-intensive, rich enterprise applications leveraging Adobe Flex. Learn how a small internal team built a test case management application used by many internal Adobe product teams. Deep dive into new concepts for work

In this session you learn: The differences between JSF/RichFaces, Flash/Flex and JavaFX; The pros and cons for each technology and delivery platform.

Join Oliver Merk and explore some of the more advanced features of Flex Builder 3.

Join Michael Labriola as he shows us how to improve our software quality by following test-driven development practices when building your Flex based rich Internet applications.

Join Chafic Kazoun, Joshua Noble, Yakov Fain and Todd Anderson to learn Flex application design (architecture) strategies.

Join Chuck Freedman, director of the developer platform at Ribbit, and find out how easy it is to add phone capabilities to your Flex project using Ribbit's SDK.

Join Ben Elmore as he shows us tools and practices that can assist in making team development of Flex applications a positive experience.

Join Tunde Turner and Steven Webster as they discuss their "Blueprint Architecture" for creating applications with Flex, Adobe AIR, LiveCycle Data Services ES, and LiveCycle ES.

Join Aaron Pedersen and James Polanco as they show us how how to use familiar design tools in Adobe Creative Suite to integrate visually rich interfaces with unique, custom components created by Flex Builder developers.

Join David Zuckerman and Mike Morearty as they show us how to extend and customize Flex Builder.

Join Aaron Adams as he ventures into the land of right-brain thinking and discover helps you discover your inner pixel. Professional UI design talent is not always considered or in the budget for enterprise Flex development projects.

Join Mike Nimer as he shows us how to build ColdFusion powered Flex applications, and get the inside scoop on the best integration tips and tricks.

Join Jun Heider as he shows us how to use the powerful debugging and profiling tools included within Flex Builder to build high-performance, reliable applications.

Join Adam Flater to learn how to use Flex Builder 3. He will cover the basic features of Flex Builder, including the project system, basic editor features, design view, running and debugging, and deploying to Adobe AIR.

Join Emory Al-Imam and Tim Buntel as they show us that there are lots of great ways to incrementally adopt Flex into the dynamic web applications you build today with ColdFusion, PHP, Ruby, or other server technologies.

Join Seth Hodgson as he shows us how to take advantage of the APIs, services, and connectivity options provided by Flex, BlazeDS, and LiveCycle Data Services to build collaborative applications.

Join Alex Uhlmann and Herve Dupriez as they speak about how Adobe Consulting delivers complex rich Internet applications built on Flex and LiveCycle ES, while still employing agile engineering methods to assure quality.

Join Nigel Pegg as he shows us how to build your first multiuser Adobe AIR application using the new Cocomo Flex SDK.

Join Alex Harui as he shows us how to leverage the Flex framework to build large applications.

Join Tom Gonzalez to learn how to gather data from disparate data sources and display them in a Flex dashboard.

Join Jeff Maling and Uris Da Costa, representatives from Roundarch, a leading rich Internet application (RIA) developer, as they share their insights about redefining experience design for the enterprise in today's financial climate.

Join Marcel Boucher and Shelley Paquette as they show us how Adobe's client and server technologies can be leveraged together to build engaging applications.

Join Greg Dierickse as he shares the latest release of EMC Documentum which includes a new interface to work with media assets built on Adobe Flex technology.

Join Nigel Pegg and explore Cocomo, Adobe's new Platform-as-a-Service for developing real-time, multiuser Flex applications.

Join Chet Haase and learn about various graphics and animation techniques that you can use in your Flex development to create applications that aren't just rich clients — they're filthy rich.

Join Joel Heinke as he discusses how your enterprise can employ emerging Adobe enterprise products and solutions to facilitate more effective and secure collaboration.

Join Brian Mantuano and learn some of the techniques that Business Objects, an SAP company, uses to develop large-scale applications based on Flex technology.

Join James Ward and explore various methods for accessing data in applications built with Flex 3.

Join Ely Greenfield as he discusses the future direction of Flex and its related products along with exciting updates being planned that will affect new and existing developers.

Join Marc Dennert and see how skins and behaviors can be created with the next version of Flex.

Join Tim Buntel, Tom Lane, David Zuckerman, Rob Brambley III, leaders of the Flex Builder team to hear about features and capabilities planned for the next exciting version of your favorite Flex IDE.

Join RJ Owen and Brad Umbaugh to learn about the advanced details of the Flex 3 framework.

Join Deepa Subramaniam as she shows us the inner workings of the Flex framework and how you can leverage them to create your own components.