Pro Flex on Spring

This book is well-suited for those with some experience with Flex and Spring who are looking for development design patterns and practical RIA architecture integration techniques.

What you’ll learn

• Explore best practices on architecting enterprise rich Internet applications with Flex and Spring.
• Discover how Flex applications interface with Spring services.
• Understand how to persist data, end–to–end, using Flex data communication protocols with Spring and its interactions with iBATIS, Hibernate, and JDBC.
• Work with solid frameworks, Cairngorm and Pure MVC, to build Flex applications.
• Build a practical application that demonstrates real experience in delivering enterprise RIAs.
• See how Spring Factories play a key role in routing calls to Spring classes from Flex clients.

This book is primarily for Spring developers and users new to Flex who want to learn how to incorporate Flex development using Spring. Flex developers curious about Spring will find this interesting as well.

Pro Flex on Spring is the first book covering the use of the Spring Framework and integrating the Flex Framework so that enterprise Java developers can now add a Rich Internet Application front end to their “back-end”. Flex on Spring completes the Spring Framework, and makes it arguably the most complete, top-down, application development stack available to Java developers.

With Flex, Spring can be a more viable “out of the box” comprehensive Java development framework and tooling solution.

Chris Giametta is the owner and lead architect for AppFoundation Technology Group, Inc. (www.appfoundation.com), specializing in Flex and open source J2EE technologies. He has been involved with Flex since spring 2004, before the release of Flex 1.5. He used Flex and Spring together to set a solid framework to deliver Flex applications to clients in retail, procurement, and web—based projects. Outside of work, Chris enjoys golfing, sporting events, and most importantly, raising his two children, Kaitlyn and Cole, with his wife, Kristi.