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/BlazeDSAfter you get that, go to the Getting Started link and get
the samples running:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/blazeds_gettingstarted.htmlHere, 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.