BlazeDS Release Candidate Available

Last Friday, we posted the BlazeDS Release Candidate on Labs.

If you missed the beta announcement in December, Adobe is open sourcing its Remoting and Messaging technologies (previously available as part of LiveCycle Data Services) under a new open source product named BlazeDS.

Compared to the Beta version, the Release Candidate includes bug fixes, and two new simple sample applications I wrote to make it easier to get started with BlazeDS:

Trader Desktop

With the addition of the new HTTP Streaming channel, BlazeDS now offers several options for building real time applications (HTTP Streaming, polling, long polling). In this new sample application, you can switch between channels in the running application, and experience the performance and latency characteristics of each type of channel. The application also demonstrates how to use the Channel and ChannelSet classes to specify which channel you want to use at the client side (as opposed to relying on the channel configuration from messaging-config.xml that is built into the SWF at compile time).

Inventory Management

The beta version was lacking a straightforward sample showing how to use Remoting to build a CRUD application. The inventory management is a simple database maintenance application that allows you to manage the product inventory in the sample database . The persistence layer is provided by a simple Java service that exposes CRUD methods (create(), update, delete()) that the Flex application can invoke remotely. In this application I reused the skin created for the Salesbuilder AIR app, and applied it to an application running inside a browser.

Download the BlazeDS Release Candidate here.