Flex Data Services, Hibernate and Eclipse - Mike Slinn book
Posted by cornel | Filed under Flex, Java, LCDS/Blaze DS, LiveCycle ES
A lot of books about Flash, Flex, ActionScript and Java are available on the market and some of them are really good. However there are still very few books related to Flex and Java integration - best practices, frameworks, performance issues, patterns and anti patterns. Mike’s book fills a gap here, in talking primarily about the two Adobe products: BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services. I’ve met few people who really know well these products well, and I think that this book can help people get a better understanding. Flex and the other RIA technologies should improve not only the user experience/interaction but also the developers life - making it much easier with - increased productivity, no more hacks and no more stateless clients. For that you need a strong platform both on the client and server side and LiveCycle Data Services can fulfill that.
The book comes with a tool written in Flash that can help you edit configuration files visually. Personally I would like to see an Eclipse plugin also - but considering that the tools for integrating Flash Player with Eclipse already exist I guess it’s possible in future.
The book is in early release - it can be ordered here.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
A co-worker of mine is in the final stages of writing a book entitled “Flex on Java”. It has not yet been published but you can check out the early access edition here: http://www.manning.com/allmon/
November 8th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
You can check out Professional BlazeDS (Wiley/Wrox, 2009) — http://www.amazon.com/Professional-BlazeDS-Creating-Applications-Programmer/dp/0470464895. You won’t be disappointed!
In addition a new Flex and Hibernate book is coming soon!