Shore Side Data System (600031 and 900823) : RIA Technologies for the SSDS
This page last changed on Oct 28, 2009 by kgomes.

I have been using Java Server Faces for the web application work and have been less than thrilled with it. It just is not that straightforward to do hard stuff. For this reason, I started to look around at RIA options. Here are some:

  1. Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
  2. Flex 3 and BlazeDS
GWT
Flex 3 and BlazeDS

I looked at Flex 3 because I have seen some very compelling uses of it and it seems to integrate well with Java development (ant, J2EE, etc.). BlazeDS is a piece that goes on the server to expose Java objects as Flex services. So, for SSDS, we can expose the EJB's to flex clients by setting up the system in the following way:

A more detailed view with examples of configuration files can be seen here:

The development environment must work in both Ant and FlexBuilder. Here is the diagram that explains how all that works:
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