Getting ready for JavaOne…
Last week I was working on our demo for JavaOne. It’s pretty much done, except for one small feature and I’m pretty excited about it. It uses our new HMTP (Hessian Messaging Transfer Protocol) to send messages back and forth between client and server. The demo itself is a Sudoku game where you play against another player on the same board. It requires both RPC style communication and messaging, both of which are natively supported by HMTP. Anyway, I’ll give a much more coherent explanation soon as I’m writing up a fact sheet and animation to show message flow today. We might be able to bring up the game live this week, so stay tuned for a link…
The demo is implemented in Flex 3 (open source :-)) using the AS3 implementation of Hessian and HMTP. I want to send a shout out to Riccardo Cohen who has been working with Hessian Flash. He was nice enough to write up a few tutorials to show how to use it with entity beans. Check it out here: Riccardo Cohen’s tutorials. Thanks, Riccardo!