Adobe gets serious about Java and Flex
December 8, 2008 · 2 Comments
A dramatic title I guess but this really highlights Adobe's commitment to open source and expanding the reach of Flex: Adobe Collaborates with SpringSource for Enhanced Flex / Spring Integration.
I've been working with Spring quite a lot over the last few months - we use it to wire things together behind the Broadchoice Workspace - and it constantly amazes me how comprehensive the Spring project is - see below for an example.
By integrating the open source BlazeDS project directly into Spring, Adobe brings Flex integration to a vast community of Java Spring developers who can now expose their Java services to Flex UIs in a very simple way. It should really help the uptake of Flex in the Java community!
An example of Spring's comprehensive nature: Ray blogged about sending email using Spring's mail support via Groovy. I recently built a new Model-Glue 3 app on top of our Groovy services and needed to send email. I could have used CFMAIL but Railo has a bug that does not allow + in email addresses and I didn't want that restriction (since we send email elsewhere directly from Groovy). It was very simple to use the same Spring mail package directly from CFML by declaring the Spring-managed beans in the CFCOMPONENT tag of my controller so that Model-Glue would autowire it!
Tags: adobe · broadchoice · coldfusion · flex · oss
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1 John Allen // Dec 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM
2 Jason Sheedy // Dec 14, 2008 at 11:08 PM
not sure if you've seen this, but it's really handy.
http://www.jmpj.net/jason/index.cfm/2008/7/8/Dynamically-created-remoting-destinations-with-BlazeDS-and-Spring-Annotations
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