Max 2007 - A Virtual Trading Floor
I'd like to highlight a Max 2007 session: A Virtual Trading Floor: Bringing Wall Street to the Classroom. It's being given by a few of my co-workers here at Wharton (Charles Rejonis, Alec Lamon, and Erin Wyher). I'm not sure about the exact topics that they will discuss, but it's about a pretty hardcore application that simulates a trading floor. Consequently it deals in multiple transactions per second on large amounts of unique user data. This application was originally a desktop application written in Visual Basic and running in a controlled lab. After a few unsuccessful attempts (because the technology wasn't there yet,) the Learning Lab team managed to replace the old application with a RIA version using ColdFusion, Flex and Flex Data Services (or LiveCycle Data Services). They ran into a lot of challenges that truly tested the limits of all of the underlying technology.
I highly suggest this session to you all. It's a great story that responds to the argument: there are some things that RIA's can't do. Because here is at least one seemingly impossible thing they can indeed do.
Posted by: Erin at October 11, 2007 9:37 AM