Over the past 5+ years I have done quite a bit of work with Flex and Spring. I am happy to announce the release of my first book; Pro Flex on Spring. You can find the book on www.amazon.com or pick it up at your local Barnes and Nobles.
Pro Flex on Spring is the first book covering the use of the Spring Framework as an integration point for the Flex Framework so that enterprise Java developers can now add a Rich Internet Application front end to their “back-end”. Flex on Spring completes the Spring Framework, and makes it arguably the most complete, top-down, application development stack available to Java developers.
What you’ll learn:
• Explore best practices on architecting enterprise Rich Internet Applications
with Flex and Spring.
• Discover how Flex applications interface with Spring services.
• Understand how to persist data, end–to–end, using Flex data communication protocols
with Spring and its interactions with iBATIS, Hibernate, and JDBC.
• Work with solid frameworks, Cairngorm and Pure MVC, to build Flex applications.
• Build a practical application that demonstrates real experience in delivering enterprise RIAs.
• See how Spring Factories play a key role in routing calls to Spring classes from Flex clients.
2:29 pm
Chris –
Hey, wanted to just tell you great job on the Pro Flex on Spring book. It’s refreshing to see someone intelligently cover such a broad range of topics and them bring them together with the reader into a truly functional app vs. an overgrown ‘hello world’.
Just wanted to ask one question — hearing a lot about the Remote Object capabilities of Flash Builder 4 tying into whatever server you’re using. I assume when we bypass the built in Message Broker in BlazeDS, we lose all that functionality or need to turn to Spring / Hibernate for it. Is that the case? And are the advantages of Spring / Hibernate sufficient to outweigh whatever benefits you’ve seen in the Data Management stuff in Flash Builder 4 ?
Thanks again for such a great read…
r.
Dallas, TX