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 in ease.
Allow push messaging

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My Web application needs both authentication and role-based authorization features. And our user profile is currently stored in an OpenLDAP server. I am looking for a security framework that can help me to integrate LDAP and provide these security features with the least amount of effort. On top of that, I want to achieve this [...]

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Externalize your configuration from war
For settings that are going to change across different environments like database connection, you should externalize them from your war file. So, you can have your war be environment agnositic. Then, you can promote via simply copying your war across different environments. In Spring, there are several ways to achieve this.
What [...]

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