Archive for the ‘Flex’ Category
BlazeDS – SSL – IBM Websphere
No it’s not one more hate post against IBM websphere, but this time the target is BlazeDS. Few days back, we were facing problem while deploying Flex application on SSL. The environment used for the deployment was IBM websphere 6.1 with IBM JDK and windows 2008. As per BlazeDS documentation, there are very minimal configuration [...]
Flex DataGrid – Data updates not reflected
Flex datagrid is nice option to display data in tabular format and with built-in features like sort, rearrange column position and customize each columns with renderers/editors, it makes developers life easy to built user friendly application in quick time. But most of the time, those who have coded in Flex, must have noticed that the datagrid [...]
Extending Flex Builder 3 – Building eclipse plugin
As mentioned in earlier post, I have been playing with FLEX builder and understand its extensibility APIs. After spending almost day crawling through various search engines and websites I couldn’t find a single site giving me details about how to work with MXML design editor APIs, I thought of giving up. But fortunately I could [...]
Flex Builder 3 – Plug-in Development
One of the best feature (yes there are many more) of Eclipse is extensibility. While it has been a most preferred IDE, not just for the development in Java, but for other languages like PHP, XML, HTML etc. building plugin for eclipse is pretty easy. The readymade wizards and built-in plugin templates makes life easier [...]
Item Editor – Tabbing – Flex Datagrid
Most of you, must have customized Flex DataGrid using custom item editors, may be to format an information or to group multiple controls in one column. Customizing appearance of DataGrid cells is one of the powerful feature of Flex and comes to the rescue of developer. This article discusses one of the problem faced by [...]
Webservice Session Maintenance – Apache CXF, Blaze DS, Spring and Flex
If Flex is dominting RIA world, CXF is dominating SOA world with its feature rich framework. CXF not only makes developers life easy by abstracting many complex task through a set of APIs but also adheres to WS-* standards without a need to having dependency on other frameworks.
Flex goes mobile – Slider
It has been quite a while that I have been using Flex for Developing projects. I found Flex has been quite interesting and with new versions of Flex SDKs, its started getting rich. New components, skinning techniques and improvements in IDE has been key factor in growth of Flex popularity. Though I would like to [...]
Make Flash mobile, ride with AIR on Handheld device
Develop Once, Deploy anywhere Finally a great effort from Adobe, OpenScreenProject – Initiative to have Singular experience, multiple devices. It’s always give great pleasure to watch the web has changed over the years. With more and more tools being innovated and used to develop Rich User Applications, information has got its new express way to [...]
Spring JMS API, JBoss MQ, BlazeDS & Flex
This time one more assignment to integrate Spring APIs with Jboss MQ. After reading through Spring documentation, I found its pretty easy to integrate any Messaging Provider solution into Spring application. Configuring JMS Topic in JBoss To create new JMS Topic destination you should configure new topic destination in [deploy_directory]/deploy/jms/jbossmq-destinations-service.xml. Following code snippet creates new [...]
Flex ActionScript Object and Java Object Serialization
Few days back while working on Flex and Java Webservices, I came across an issue which eventually became worst nightmare. The issue got even worst when we couldn’t find any suitable solution to overcome it. The issue was related to ActionScript value object to Java Object Serialization.


