Monthly Archives: March 2009

Make and Receive Phone Calls in the New Version of the Salesbuilder Sample Flex Application

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 27, 2009
I updated my Salesbuilder sample Flex/Adobe AIR application with a couple of new interesting features: Ribbit integration: allows you to make and receive calls from within the application KapIt Visualizer component to represent the org chart ILog calendar component
Posted in Flex | 40 Comments

Externalizing Service Configuration using BlazeDS and LCDS

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 23, 2009
A typical source of confusion when developers start working with RemoteObject or other BlazeDS/LCDS related classes is where and most importantly *when* the configuration of your services is being read. The question often arises after an application stops working when you move it to another server. This is one of the most frequently asked questions related [...]
Posted in Air, BlazeDS, Flex, LCDS | 26 Comments

The Spring ActionScript Framework — Part 3: Injecting Services (and Mock Services)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 20, 2009
In part 1 of this series, we saw how Flex AS allows you to externalize the configuration and the wiring of objects. In part 2, we discussed how you can “autowire” view properties. We intentionally kept the example simplistic by directly injecting the contact RemoteObject into the views. In real life, however, you generally don’t [...]
Posted in Flex | 10 Comments

The “Spring ActionScript” Framework – Part 2: Autowiring

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 12, 2009
In the first part of this series, we looked at how the “Spring ActionScript” framework can help you externalize the configuration and the wiring of your components, and how you can easily obtain configured objects using applicationContext.getObject(). In this second part, we will discuss how you can make these objects available to the views of your [...]
Posted in Flex, Frameworks, Spring | Tagged | 17 Comments

Spring/BlazeDS Integration Test Drive: M2 Update Available

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 11, 2009
UPDATE: This version of the Test Drive is now obsolete. I posted a new version of the Test Drive for the RC1 build of the Spring / BlazeDS integration project here. I updated my Test Drive for the M2 build of the Spring / BlazeDS integration project. The Test Drive now includes a sample demonstrating the integration [...]
Posted in Flex, LiveCycle Data Services | 37 Comments

The “Spring ActionScript” Framework – Part 1: The Basics

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 9, 2009
The “Spring ActionScript” framework (formerly known as Prana, and brainchild of Christophe Herreman) is being built as the ActionScript version of the Spring IoC framework hugely popular in the Java world. It is also part of a growing number of Flex frameworks that revolve around the Dependency Injection approach (the list also includes Swiz and [...]
Posted in Flex, Spring | 12 Comments