Comments on: Creating the flex client using Spring ActionScript

By: jettro

jettro — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:39:42 +0000

To be honest, the only thing I have used spring-actionscript for is to load a file from the server that helps me configure the remote connection. Other than that I was able to stick to Mate. So I am afraid I did not do what you are looking for.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:32:09 +0000

Hi, I know this post was a while ago.

Have you solved the problem of integrating spring-action script with Mate? I’m using Mate at the moment but there are a few things I don’t like about it that I think the spring actionscript would be better at.

I guess somehow the ObjectBuilder/generator tags from mate need to hook into Objects created in the spring action script, haven’t looked to hard and wondering if you had come up with anything?

Steve

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By: jettro

jettro — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:15:03 +0000

Thanks for this investigation, I’ll try it out on the mac and see what happens.

I’ve put your blog to my rss feeds, keep the posts coming. I prefer english though , my french is a bit rusty.

By: François

François — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:45:03 +0000

OK So I managed to run your sample.
Here is what I had to do.
It looks like I faced a couple of issues.
on my first try, I compiled the springactionscript swc using the “open source” flex sdk,
I later tried with the adobe one.

Then I faced a “java.util.zip.ZipException: The system cannot find the path specified”, it looked the same as this hibernate entity manager bug : http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/EJB-121

So I switched to a more recent version of hibernate entity manager :3.3.2.GA.
But then it looked like the pom file of this version was missing xalan, so I had to add it manually.

That’s what I ended up editing in the books-integration pom file:

org.hibernate
hibernate-entitymanager
3.3.2.GA

xalan
xalan
2.7.1

And then finally to get the swf properly deployed on jetty
I ran mvn jetty:run-exploded.
And that’s it !

Finally I wanted to tell you that I went a lot further than the xdoclet stuff you saw on my adobe blog, I’m actually blogging a lot more on my personal blog : http://www.droff.com

and you’ll see a lot more visiting those links :
* http://fna.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fna/site/flex-contrib-spring/index.html
* http://fna.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fna/site/mvn_archetypes/blazeds-autowired-spring-hibernate-archetype/index.html

Cheers and thanks for sharing this great integration work of yours !
François

By: jettro

jettro — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:10:37 +0000

Hi Francois, at the moment I cannot reproduce your error. I have downgraded to java 5, but than it works as well. What java version are you using? And what operating system?

Of course I know the work you are doing at fna. I have been working with the archetypes as well. I haven’t used the one with blazeds that you mention. I am not that fond of XDoclet and code generation. But that is a personal choice. I like the work you are doing in getting maven better supported for flex.

If you can try it out with xalan and it works for you, let me know, than it might be helpful for others as well.

thanks

By: François

François — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:14:41 +0000

Thanks.
I read your post with interest. I tried your sample on google code.
I ended up with a webapp initialization error:

17:07:02,124 ERROR DispatcherServlet:290 – Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean wit
h name ‘mySpringManagedMessageBroker’ defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-I
NF/spring-web.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.l
ang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xpath/CachedXPathAPI

Do we need to add xalan in the dependencies ?

By the way, I’ve also been playing around with spring/blazeds/flex lately but before the springsource guys release this new library.
The result was pretty elegant as well with autowired spring service (based on lib we named flex-contrib-spring), have a look at :
* http://code.google.com/p/fna/
* http://fna.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fna/site/flex-contrib-spring/index.html
* http://fna.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fna/site/mvn_archetypes/blazeds-autowired-spring-hibernate-archetype/index.html