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XMPie and Flex
Application Architect Tim Perrett has moved the VDP boundary once again, this time by building a demo application integrating into XMPie, purely written in Flex (his first Flex project). He's even writing to the database dircectly from Flex through XMPie ICP. Another testimony to the open, flexible architecture of XMPie PersonalEffect.
If you don't know about Flex, it's a free open source framework from Adobe for building Rich Internet Applications, which is rendered through Flash (typically in a Web browser) or as a runtime client using Adobe AIR.
Tim's used the camera device support in Flash Player 9 to let you capture a mug shot of yourself, and include it as an image asset in a PDF document (composed on-demand using InDesign Server).
Try it for youself at festival.timperrett.com. (If you have problems connecting to the camera, make sure you've got the latest Flash Player installed. If you still have problems, right-click on the Flash object, click 'Settings' and play around with the camera options).
Nice work Tim!
Posted on Wednesday, 30 April 2008 at 8:02 AM | TrackBack: http://www.veedeepee.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/125