Comments on: Model Driven Development with Flex 4 and LCDS 3 Screencast

By: Antony Jukes

Antony Jukes — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:29:06 +0000

Hi Christophe, firstly thanks for a great tutorial..

I have come across an issue using multiple model driven forms in the same application,
(http://help.adobe.com/en_US/LiveCycleDataServicesES/3.0/Installing/lcds30_releasenotes.html) (bug LCDS-1119)

In a nut shell, if you are editing a LCDS model driven form in one area of your application it will directly effect the other model driven forms within the same app, it makes no difference whether the the forms are located in different states or components etc.

I understand that this is a bug but just wondering if you know of a workaround or if a new bug fix release of LCDS 3 is due anytime soon?? I am currently using release October 09. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

By: Quelques nouveautés Adobe | Blog Objet Direct

Quelques nouveautés Adobe | Blog Objet Direct — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:16:10 +0000

[...] L’outil génère ainsi la couche service à partir du modèle objet défini sous Eclipse, le déploie sur le serveur LiveCycle, et le connecte à l’interface Flex, tout cela en quelques clics. Pour vous faire une idée des possibilités, une vidéo de démonstration (la même qu’au séminaire): http://coenraets.org/blog/2009/09/flex4mdd/ [...]

By: Jamie McKenzie

Jamie McKenzie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:26:33 +0000

May I also add that it is great to see someone going that little bit further when creating a tutorial. Things like adding a search feature that doesn’t just filter the current array collection but instead utilises a call to the server and other bits like field validation and the use of model/class properties to only show a field based on a certain criteria.

By: Jamie McKenzie

Jamie McKenzie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:36:43 +0000

Wow this is what the community have really been waiting for !! The Model Driven Development features are a breath of fresh air when it comes to knocking up a skeleton for your application. This really does streamline some of the development and modelling tasks.

Do Adobe plan on providing the same functionality for the other technologies like coldfusion and php etc.? If so, then this would really make flex stand out from the rest of the RIA development tools.

For php I don’t see why not, as creating php classes, models etc. should be quite similar. it would probably tie the basic user into using one particular framework like ZendAMF, although anyone with a bit of experience could remodel the generated classes etc. to suit their framework or oop technique.

Regarding your tutorial / demo video it would be great if you could demonstrate how to turn the objects returned in the data grid into usable entities like item renderers / editors. For example if you could demonstrate the following;

An item renderer/item editor using a combo box for the IndustryId field
An item renderer/item editor using a checkbox for the publicCompany field

I know this is adds a little complication to the demo and its not your responsibility to show us how to do everything possible with flash builder but it would really be helpful as there are no concrete examples that I know of on the net showing this sort of functionality using a service orientated dataprovider (I have seen some which use inline static arrays or static array collections). And personally believe Adobe should be making lighter work of creating item renderers using combo boxes / dropdownlists within a datagrid or form.

I believe the quicker developers can get up to speed using flash builder to do common tasks and ui interoperability the better the product will become and having persons like yourself doing an excellent job giving us developers an insight into the possibilities of the product is invaluable.

Your Sales Builder App is awesome too and would recommend anyone interested in creating air or flex applications to take a look, beginners and experienced programmers alike as there are some excellent examples of how to model your app, mvc layout and integrating external libraries.

By: Program Yükle

Program Yükle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:22:14 +0000

Thank you admin goood

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:37:16 +0000

Hello.

One problem.
Flash Builder/Data Model/RDS Dataview/
message of Alert:

“Unable to contact the RDS Server
Connection refused:connect”

And now?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:30:24 +0000

Will it be possible to modify the code generation patterns? For instance, will it be possible to generate the persistance layer with JPA/EJB instead of Hibernate or any other type of technology?

By: Samuel Vaz

Samuel Vaz — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:09:33 +0000

Very nice presentation. I´m exciting to use it.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:15:17 +0000

Hi Christophe,

I’ve noticed some differences in the version of (i think…) the fiber modeller you use in the demo and the one we’ve used so far. Our version of the modeller plugin (and the one still offered for download) is dated: 15 June 2009. In our version there are no relations visible in the .fml design view and also the generate model driven form does not work as well as you demonstrate. Is it possible you have a different version or are we just noobz?

Thanks in advance,
Michael

By: Amichai Lesser

Amichai Lesser — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:09:38 +0000

Hi Christophe,
Great demo.
Any chance we can see a BlazeDS based version of the demo?

Thanks,
Amichai