Category Archives: BlazeDS

Building the Server-Side of the “Tour de Flex” Real-Time Dashboard

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 26, 2009
Greg Wilson and Damien Mandrioli are also blogging about the new Tour de Flex real time dashboard today. Greg is the inspiration behind everything “Tour de Flex”, including the idea of the dashboard. He has the story behind the genesis of this project on his blog. Damien (from IBM/ILOG) did a fantastic job at building [...]
Also posted in Flex, Java, LCDS | 54 Comments

New Update to the Spring BlazeDS Integration Test Drive

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 12, 2009
I made some additional changes to the Spring BlazeDS Integration (RC1) Test Drive: The Test Drive now includes an annotation-based configuration sample (the Company Manager sample). Spring annotations such as @Service, @RemotingDestination, @Autowired, @RemotingInclude, and @RemotingExclude make it really easy to configure your beans and make them available through Remoting. As an example, here is the [...]
Also posted in Flex, Java, Spring | 27 Comments

Speaking at the New England Java User Group on Thursday (May 14th)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 11, 2009
Also posted in Flex, Java, Spring | 7 Comments

New Test Drive for Spring BlazeDS Integration RC1

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 8, 2009
UPDATE: An updated version of this Test Drive is available here SpringSource just released the RC1 build for the Spring / BlazeDS integration project. The key new feature in RC1 is the integration of the BlazeDS Message Service. I updated my Spring BlazeDS Integration Test Drive to showcase the messaging integration. In addition to Remoting and Security samples, [...]
Also posted in Flex, Java, LCDS, Spring | 19 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 [...]
Also posted in Air, Flex, LCDS | 26 Comments

Spring / BlazeDS Integration on Adobe TV

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 20, 2009
In this new Adobe TV episode, I demonstrate how to build Flex applications that connect to a Spring back-end using the new Spring / BlazeDS Integration project. If you are interested in this integration, make sure you check out the Spring / BlazeDS Integration page on the SpringSource web site and the new Spring / BlazeDS [...]
Also posted in Flex, Java, Spring | 42 Comments

Sample application using the Swiz Framework and BlazeDS

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: February 13, 2009
There have been a lot of discussions around Flex Frameworks lately. Tony Hillerson has an interesting series here: 1 2 3 4 5 6 A relative newcomer on the list is Swiz, the work of Chris Scott. I figured I would give it a try, and create a Swiz version of the inSync application that I [...]
Also posted in Air, Flex, Java, LCDS | 11 Comments

New Spring/BlazeDS Integration Test Drive

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: January 27, 2009
UPDATE: I posted a new version of the Test Drive for the M2 build of the Spring / BlazeDS integration project here. Please use that version. SpringSource recently announced the Spring / BlazeDS Integration project. You can read more about the project and download the bits at http://www.springsource.org/spring-flex. To help developers get started with the integration, I [...]
Also posted in Air, Flex, Spring | 50 Comments

Using the SQLite Database Access API in AIR… Part 3: Annotation-Based ORM Framework

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: December 1, 2008
In the second version of our contact management application, we encapsulated the data access logic for the Contact entity in a Data Access Object (ContactDAO). This separation of concerns represented a major improvement compared to our first approach. The remaining limitation we identified was the amount of SQL we had to write “manually”. In this third [...]
Also posted in Flex | 24 Comments

My MAX LCDS/BlazeDS Sessions Materials Available

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: November 20, 2008
Many of you have asked me for the materials I used in my LCDS/BlazeDS hands-on sessions at MAX. Here are the links: Lab instructions PDF (Powering Flex Applications with BlazeDS and Data Services) Lab files (including final solutions) If you didn’t have a chance to attend, you should be able to use this as a BlazeDS/LCDS tutorial [...]
Also posted in Air, Flex, LCDS, MAX | 11 Comments