After months of promising we have finally moved Exadel Flamingo to exadel.org and released version 2.2.0. exadel.org is our community site for hosting open source projects. Flamingo is a light weight framework for connecting rich web and mobile user interfaces to enterprise back end.

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Flamingo connects Seam, Spring, and Java EE 6 (soon via CDI/JSR299) with the following user interfaces:

• JavaFX
• Flash
• iPhone/Android
• Swing
• JavaME

Version 2.2.0 is updated with Hessian 4 and JavaFX 1.3 support.

Server-side components, methods or services can be easily invoked from the above listed clients with minimal code. Flamingo provides the following features:

• CRUD tools
• Server-side integration
  • Calling server components/beans
  • Context variable binding/updating
  • Conversation support
  • Validation (Hibernate Validator)
  • EL support (Expression Language)
• Server-side push
• Client push (off line applications)

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As you can see from the image above, no matter what client you are using, invoking a method in your enterprise applications looks very similar which allows for great reuse.

How to get started?

• Download Flamingo from http://exadel.org/flamingo.
• The following are good resources to get started or learn more about Flamingo.
• Check out the recent Enterprise JavaFX and Seam series. This series shows most server integration features in separate post and easy to follow examples.
• We want to hear your feedback, please use project Jira or the forum to report bugs or any features you would like to see.