Professional BlazeDS: Creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java

A hands-on guide to creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using BlazeDS

BlazeDS enables you to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications in order to garner more responsive Rich Internet Application (RIA) experiences. It is a scalable option for Flex and Java integration and allows you to create excellent RIAs with both Flex and Java.

This informative resource provides you with detailed examples and walkthroughs that explain the best practices for creating RIAs using BlazeDS. You''ll begin with the essentials of BlazeDS and then more on to more advanced topics. Along the way, you''ll learn the real-world concerns that surround enterprise-based Java and Flex applications.

• BlazeDS enables you to connect to back-end distributed data in order to garner more responsive Rich Internet Application (RIA) experiences
• Begins with an introduction to BlazeDS, and explains the necessary features for integrating new and existing Java data sources and applications with Flex-based RIAs
• Provides hands-on examples and addresses real-world concerns surrounding enterprise-based Java and Flex applications
• Serves as a comprehensive walk through for creating RIAs using BlazeDS

If you''re looking to create rich, productive, and engaging applications, then this book is for you.

Use BlazeDS to create exceptional rich applications with Flex and Java

BlazeDS is a popular, open source web application that can successfully be deployed into a Java application server, making it an ideal option for Flex and Java integration. With this comprehensive resource, you''ll walk through the process of creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using BlazeDS. After a look at BlazeDS basics, the book then moves on to explain how to configure, customize, and extend BlazeDS in order to integrate with new and existing Java data sources and applications with Flex-based RIA.

• Explains how to install BlazeDS from source as well as its compiled distributions

• Demonstrates ways to make user interfaces engaging and effective

• Introduces techniques for intercepting for control and management

• Features tips for configuring a remoting service and a destination

• Reviews remoting communication flow and remoting related classes, components, and modules

• Includes coverage of testing and debugging Flex and BlazeDS applications

• Shows how to extend BlazeDS with custom adapters and factories to connect to enterprise Java resources.

• Discusses methods for leveraging JPA and Hibernate with Flex

• Delves into the topic of communicating real-time via messages

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Shashank Tiwari is a technology entrepreneur, speaker, author, and innovator. He is currently a managing partner & CTO at Treasury of Ideas (http://www.treasuryofideas.com), a technology-driven innovation and value optimization company.