Category Archives: Java

Category Archives: Java

Flex 4 Sample Application using a Java Back-End, BlazeDS 4 and Flash Builder 4 Data Wizards

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 23, 2010
I put together a new Test Drive environment to allow you to explore the development of Flex 4 applications with a Java back-end using the new “Data-Centric Development” features of Flash Builder 4. These features include service introspection, value object and service stub generation, etc. This Test Drive is still work in progress: it currently [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, Flex4 | 15 Comments

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 BlazeDS, Flex, LCDS | 53 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 [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, 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 BlazeDS, Flex, Spring | 8 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 [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, LCDS, Spring | 19 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 / [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, Spring | 40 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 [...]
Also posted in Air, BlazeDS, Flex, LCDS | 13 Comments

Adobe Collaborates with SpringSource for Enhanced Flex / Spring Integration

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: December 8, 2008
I have written several times about the Flex / Spring integration on this blog. Now things are about to get even simpler and more integrated. This is very exciting news! From the press release: Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it is working with SpringSource to simplify the development and deployment of rich enterprise Java(TM) [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Flex | 13 Comments

“Zero Code” Data Access using LiveCycle Data Services Runtime Configuration

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: September 12, 2008
When using the LCDS data management service, developers usually create a custom assembler for each destination, or use the Hibernate assembler if they happen to use Hibernate as their persistence framework. Other developers don’t use the data management service at all because of its perceived complexity. The Data Management Service provides a set of low [...]
Also posted in Flex, LiveCycle Data Services | 37 Comments

Flex Test Drive Server for Java Developers (Tomcat-based)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: January 12, 2007
I have been working on a Tomcat-based “Flex Test Drive Server”. The Test Drive Server is a minimal and ready-to-use version of Tomcat (currently version 5.5.20) in which the Flex Data Services (version 2.0.1) WAR file has already been deployed and configured along with a variety of tutorials and sample applications. It allows you to [...]
Also posted in Collaboration, Flex, Spring, hibernate | 158 Comments