I have a requirement to build a flex mobile app (iOS/Android) which is capable of downloading data from the web (product animations and associated data).
It needs to handle additional product lines if I add any and cache the data offline (in SQlite I guess).
I think web services is probably the answer but is it possible to load an external library such as SWF or SWC using this method?
Any help is much appreciated as always!
I think web services is probably the answer but is it possible to load
an external library such as SWF or SWC using this method?
If you need to pass data to and from a Flex app then you can use RemoteObject (AMF), WebService (SOAP), or HTTPService (REST). My personal recommendation is to use RemoteObject/AMF whenever possible.
You can load another SWF at runtime using SWFLoader. I'm pretty sure that SWFLoader will not work on iOS as there are clauses in the iOS Developer agreement that you can have code that will interpret other code at runtime or something similar.
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I have an existing Windows desktop application written in C++ that needs to add support for SNMP so that a few pieces of status information are available on some SNMP OIDs. I found the net-snmp project and have been trying to understand how this can best fit into the existing program.
Questions:
Do I need to run snmpd, or can I just integrate the agent code into my application? I would prefer that starting my application does everything necessary rather than worry about deploying and running multiple processes, but the documentation doesn't speak much about doing this. The net-snmp agent daemon tutorial has an option for running the sample code as the full-agent rather than sub-agent, but I'm not sure about any limitations of doing this.
What would the PROs/CONs be for running a full agent in my application vs using snmpd and putting a subagent in my application? Is there a 3rd option I should also consider?
If I can integrate the full agent into the existing program, how do I pass it a configuration file via the API? Can I avoid the config file all together by passing these parameters in via function call instead?
I have an app with ParseServer back-end and Ionic2 front-end. I need to simulate multiple users to stress test the back-end.
What load testing tools would you recommend to use for such setup?
Thanks.
You need to split your process into 2 phases:
Server-side testing. You need to load test your backend to ensure that it is in position to simulate anticipated number of users. In fact any tool capable of sending HTTP Requests will fit, the most popular free and open source load testing solutions are JMeter, Grinder, Gatling, and Tsung. All of them come with record-and-replay functionality so you will be able to build your test by just interacting with your mobile application and using the load testing tool as a proxy. See Open Source Load Testing Tools: Which One Should You Use? article for main features highlighted and compared.
Client-side testing. Even if your server responds very fast, handles enormous loads, able to scale, etc. your application user experience may be not that good as client side performance also matters. You can go for Chrome Dev Tools Remote Debugging and/or Intel XDK which is capable of profiling existing applications.
You can try using ZebraTester and record the script for this test. The trial version allows you to have up to 20 Virtual Users and these can run multiple loops depending on the length of your test. The same tool can record the script as well as run the load test from your local machine.
I use to test parse server
in http://jmeter.apache.org/
is a free tool you can install your computer then start testing
More specifically, when using a backend application framework I generally am afforded some level of asset management which allows me to work with multiple files in development which are uncompressed and unminified and then in production mode those files become automatically minified, compressed, and concatenated into a single file.
I am looking to create an Ember application that is a single page app that interfaces with a separate RESTful services layer. I simply do not need the weight of a framework behind the Ember app and am hoping to serve it as static html+css+js, so I am looking for any guidance on how to easily manage development and deployment of a client-side only app without adding much overhead.
Right now my biggest issue is with including JS (and to a lesser extent, CSS) files. My HTML is static and I have an Ember app comprised of many files, so I have many script tags to include them all. This is clearly not appropriate for production so I imagine some kind of build tool will be needed to assemble my Javascript files and overwrite the script tags in the HTML file. Are there tools out there right now that will do this? Is there another approach that I may be overlooking?
This is my first fully client-side application so it's very possible that I just need to make a paradigm shift, having done server-side applications for so long.
Agreed this can be tricky without a backend framework. For sure script tags are not the way to go and you will need some kind of build tool for production deployment.
Ember App Kit is a solution a few of us have been working on. It's still early stages but i've used it for a couple of projects so far and it's been much better than trying to roll-my-own with grunt. I would expect it to become the default starting point for ember apps in near future, to try it now just download it as a zip then read the Getting Started Guide
There are many other solid solutions out there, consider checking out:
ember-tools
brunch-with-ember-reloaded
brunch-with-hapmsters
charcoal
I use a combination of requirejs and Grunt, using these lovely functions and this one, which can compile your ember-handlebars templates into functions. (The git-contrib includes the ability to watch for changes in your files and perform various build steps which may differ if you are in development or production. You can have separate grunt functions which run various tasks for production or development. Of course for all of this you are going to need node!
I have a use case that requires offline access to google earth. I know that google earth enterprise offers a disconnected product, however we may not have access to that product and/or google earth enterprise is prohibitively expensive at $25K for a dev license.
I would prefer to use the google earth plugin since I am building an application and would like to use the JS api. Is it possible to host the google earth plugin on my own disconnected server? We would use google earth connected to a standalone offline WMS server for access to imagery.
said another way, can I host the plugin and corresponding javascript on my own server?
I do not know if i understand well your problem but i can explain you waht I'm currently working on.
Im my current application with google earth plugin js api, I'm able to start the plugin even if offline. But one requirement is to have cached data.
If you have cached data and if you start the plugin offline, then zooming to a level with higher resolution that the one you have in your cached data will have no effect (imagery will not be update to higher resolution)
but depending on what you really need, yes , you can start the plugin offline
This is not really answering your original question but if you are interested, just tell me :-)
I tried to cache Google Earth with a proxy server but I couldn't.
Furthermore I think the api is validated every time it loads against Google Servers and doesn't allow offline use
It's some monthes now since I have worked with this.
I'll try to explain with what i can remember :-)
in the html where i have my plug-in, i have removed:
"script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/jsapi">
but i have saved locally this jsapi.js file. I also saved locally loader_1-008.js
then, im my code (c++, Qt) I'm using evaluateJavaScript(Qstring source) twice
where source is the text read from my 2 .js files
These 2 evaluateJavaScript calls need to be done before loading my html (the one with the plugin)
in my QWebView
I can not remmeber much more but I hope this can start to help you
My company uses a lot of different web services on daily bases. I find that I repeat same steps over and over again on daily bases.
For example, when I start a new project, I perform the following actions:
Create a new client & project in Liquid Planner.
Create a new client Freshbooks
Create a project in Github or Codebasehq
Developers to Codebasehq or Github who are going to be working on this project
Create tasks in Ticketing system on Codebasehq and tasks in Liquid Planner
This is just when starting new projects. When I have to track tasks, it gets even trickier because I have to monitor tasks in 2 different systems.
So my question is, is there a tool that I can use to create a web service that will automate some of these interactions? Ideally, it would be something that would allow me to graphically work with the web service API and produce an executable that I can run on a server.
I don't want to build it from scratch. I know, I can do it with Python or RoR, but I don't want to get that low level.
I would like to add my sources and pass data around from one service to another. What could I use? Any suggestions?
Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator lets you build WebServices through an Eclipse based GUI.
It is a commercial product, and I happen to work for the company that makes it. In some respects I think it might be overkill for you, as it's really an enterprise-level data mapping tool for mapping disparate data sources (web services, databases, xml files, COBOL) to a common model, as opposed to a simple web services builder, and it doesn't really support your github bits, anymore than normal Eclipse plugins would.
That said, I do believe there are Mantis plugins for github to do task tracking, and I know there's a git plugin for Eclipse that works really well (jgit).
Couldn't you simply use Selenium to execute some of this tasks for you? Basically as long as you can do something from the browser, Selenium will also be able to do. Selenium comes with a language called "selenese", so you can even use it to programmatically create an "API" with your tasks.
I know this is a different approach to what you're originally looking for, but I've been using selenium for a number of tasks, and found it's even good to execute ANT tasks or unit tests.
Hope this helps you
What about Apache Camel?
Camel lets you create the Enterprise Integration Patterns to implement routing and mediation rules in either a Java based Domain Specific Language (or Fluent API), via Spring based Xml Configuration files or via the Scala DSL. This means you get smart completion of routing rules in your IDE whether in your Java, Scala or XML editor.
Apache Camel uses URIs so that it can easily work directly with any kind of Transport or messaging model such as HTTP, ActiveMQ, JMS, JBI, SCA, MINA or CXF Bus API together with working with pluggable Data Format options.