Space of Flex/AIR technologies

Yesterday I was presenting at GeeCON (Kraków/Poland) conference where I showed how you can build Flex apps that run and connect to Google Java App Engine. With my first example I did a simple servlet based RESTful service that was returning XML document to my HTTPService on Flex side.

At the end I demonstrated one of my examples that I previously wrote for Zend_Amf but this time I ported it to slightly modified version of BlazeDS that works with GAE. I used instructions from Martin Zoldano blog http://martinzoldano.blogspot.com/2009/04/appengine-adobe-blazeds-fix.html.

You can give it a try, the app is hosted here: http://flexnotes.appspot.com/

Google App Engine is really immazing technology, hopefully it will be able to run BlazeDS without hacking soon I know GraniteDS and WebORB with their latest builds are already supporting it.

New version of GraniteDS 1.1 was released yestarday. Granite is an open source alternative to LCDS/BlazeDS Adobe products. It introduces several cool features and the one I like most is Tide framework that allows very tight integration with JBoss Seam framework which runs on the server side. Future versions will also support Spring and EJB3 on similar level as Seam is currently.

Also brand new Granite Eclipse Builder was released, it is very handful eclipse plugin that can generate AS3 classes based on Java Entity beans.

More info can be found on here.

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