Introduction This article is written on top of the great work that Sébastien Arbogast has done. He has written 3 articles that showed you how to wire up Flex, BlazeDS, Spring, Hibernate and MySQL with Maven as build process. I have included his articles below as your reference. The Flex, Spring, and BlazeDS full stack – [...]

Power of BlazeDS Recently, I found out that Adobe has released BlazeDS (subset of LiveCycleDS) that has 4 main advantages: AS3 to Java object communication (no XML passes back and forth is needed!) Boost up performance b/c AMF is a binary protocol Built-in proxy support that gets around the cross domain security issue from Flex [...]

Here is the list of reasons why I chose Flex for the RIA development. Write Once Deploy Everywhere – Flex generates SWF that runs on top of Flash Player VM and behaves consistently across different browsers, even mobile phones later. With this, all the browser compatibility issues are basically offloaded by Adobe. Solid programming model [...]