Total Newbie Question(s)

[Former Community Member]

Hello Folks,



In advance, I already want to thank all of you willing to
take the time to read this, or even reply :)



Anyway, here's my current situation.

I've got Eclipse Europa (3.3) with the Flex 3 plugin.

I've got Tomcat 6 with the LiveCycle Data Services.

I've got some experience in coding Java classes, contacting
Databases (I currently would like to use MySQL) and wiring it all
with Spring/Toplink etc...



Anyway, I'm a bit lost when trying to do the following:

I want to create a webbased database management thingie. Easy
mode. One table, 2 fields etc...

However, I'm completely lost at how to start.



I'm perfectly capable to create my Bean, Dao, DaoImpl and
even a service layer above that which gives access to my Dao.

Other then that I'm, after some nice tutorials, capable in
creating my FLEX-Gui to show it all.



What's the problem then?

Well, I have no idea what I need to do with my Java classes
to make sure I can use them in my Flex App...

How do I need to create the war that needs to be deployed on
my Tomcat?

What is needed in my Service Layer to make it accessible?

What do I need to add in my Flex project to use that War? I
need to point towards a 'war-location' when creating a J2EE based
Flex application in Eclipse...



Anyway, I hope the explanation and the questions are clear
enough and not too 'noob-like' :)



Any replies appreciated!



Regards,

Pïeter

[Former Community Member]

Hoi Pieter,



you can use this zip (
http://www.vantwisk.nl/riesvantwisk/resource/blaze-ds.zip)
file to kick of your project. It uses Blaze-DS, not LCDS but it
sounds like you can get away with Blaze-DS.



I use ant as my build tool and can compile and deploy in
GlassFish JBoss and TOmcat. I prevere to use GlassFIsh.



Teh zip contains a example with messaging and remoting in
action.



Together with your current framework you can conenct the dots
and update your DB. I always use PostgreSQL, but the zip is
transparent and doesn't rely on anything but your imagination.



Ries

[Former Community Member]

Hey Ries,



first of all, thanks for taking the effort to reply :)



However, the link you provide is dead for me...

I tried searching your site for it, but it's a wee bit
cluttered to find anything :)



Any chance you can check it ?



regards,

Pieter

[Eric_Holsinger]

Pieter,



What you need is provided in the following link. It will get
you the main BlazeDS server/war app download and javadocs:


http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS



After you get that, go to the Getting Started link and get
the samples running:


http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/blazeds_gettingstarted.html

Here, you'll be installing an HSQL db, BlazeDS server
deployment, the samples war, etc. This will give you a good overall
look at Flex back-ending to a java server solution (i.e. Remoting).





I took this and ran with it and was able to go from the
samples to configuring my own existing EJB app to use BlazeDS with
a Flex thick client (i.e. using the flashplayer plugin in a web
page). I put this together in about 3 days, including the
familiarization with BlazeDS and some research, so it's not that
bad.



There are some setup issues that were a bit hairy, so if you
have any issues getting it up and running, reply back to this
thread and I'll help you out.



One thing I will say: My confidence level with Adobe and
EJB/Java technologies is not high - i.e., no offense to Adobe, but
I don't see a lot of technical info on the nuts and bolts between
Flex, BlazeDS, and server-side java. Maybe because it's designed to
be stupid-simple, not sure - but if they're pushing the technology,
they need to probably get a bit more info out there - and their
"open sourcing" of BlazeDS is not on sourceforge and I don't see
any mention of a development team working on it, which is a bit
scary in and of itself.



Cheers, Eric.

[Eric_Holsinger]

One more thing, quickly - once you get the samples up and
running, ignore everything but the Remoting portion of the
instructions - the rest is for web services and other technologies
that you don't need with java remoting.



Thx, Eric.