Flex Remote Object Services - BlazeDS
Continue Reading March 5th, 2009 Nitesh Garg
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are increasingly being seen as successful models for creating lightweight front-ends for SOAs. They not only allow developers to overcome the static natured HTML’s limitation of refreshing the entire page to load new information but also allow flashy graphics, and immersive user experiences. Adobe’s Flex is a free open source framework for building and maintaining RIAs that allows consistent deployment on all major browsers. Adobe provides a commercially available development environment (Flex builder) with free trial version for 60 days that is highly recommended for ease of development.
Besides the rich interface library, Flex provides SOA based data access components that allows server side interaction for the flex applications. This article will look at the different ways for bringing server side data into a Flex application, primarily focusing on Remote Services using BlazeDS.
