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Using BlazeDS with Spring


Chris Coenraets

Christophe Coenraets

Adobe

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Getting started
  3. Setting up your web application to use Flex and Spring
  4. Example 1: Mortgage calculator
  5. Example 2: Store/inventory management using Flex Remoting
Created:
25 Feb 2008
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
LiveCycle

Flex is rapidly becoming the preferred technology for building groundbreaking internet applications delivered in the browser and on the desktop (using the AIR runtime). For several years, Spring has been one of the most popular frameworks for building the Java back-end of internet applications. In this article, we describe how to use BlazeDS Remoting to seamlessly integrate the two technologies and build state-of-the-art internet applications made of a Flex front-end and a Spring back-end.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Sample files:

Prerequisites:

Some knowledge of Flex and Spring.

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About the author

Christophe Coenraets worked at Powersoft—which then became part of Sybase—from 1994 to 2000. He started working with Java in 1996 and became the technical evangelist for the company's Java and Internet Application Division. Christophe then joined Macromedia as the technical evangelist for JRun, the company's J2EE application server. In this position, Christophe started working on rich Internet applications (RIAs) and on ways of integrating Flash front ends with J2EE back ends. Christophe is currently Senior Evangelist for the new developer-centric RIA initiative at Adobe. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 10 years.