How did JamJar leverage the new capabilities of Flex 2?
Flex 2 provided a framework that made developing and debugging complex rich Internet applications easier and faster. The JamJar team was able to port its service that was based on Flex 1.5/ActionScript 2 to Flex 2 technologies in only 6 weeks. We also saw significant end-user performance improvements when we ported over to Flex 2. More specifically, here are some Flex 2 capabilities that the JamJar development team leveraged. • It was very easy to mix standard Flex UI components with JamJar’s custom UI components. The JamJar “fly out” pods are an example of a UI extension that the JamJar team built. • Data synchronization and persistence is all done with Flex data services. This greatly simplified the JamJar design because FDS provides all the tools needed to declare the data model and mechanisms for storing, sharing, and syncing. It’s an extensible architecture so the JamJar team was able to easily integrate back-end services such as the special handling of images (resolution reductio
