Anil Channappa’s Blog

A new version of LCDS (2.6.1) and Blaze DS () is now available for download.

Key highlights:

1. Support the new version of Adobe® Flex™ SDK 3.2
2. (LC DS Only) Support federated portal Architecture – http://www.adobe.com/go/lcds26_wsrp
3. Java AMFlibrary – With this, java applications outside of LC DS and Blaze DS can send data allowing you to use LC DS and Blaze DS as your data gateway in your enterprise. More Info
4. Obviously some nagging bugs

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Blaze DS Release Notes

LC DS 2.6.1 Release Notes

We demonstrated the early release of our current work at max. Here are some highlights:

1. LC DS will support a new feature known as the Adobe data model. This is similar to a UML, but developers can also define behaviors such as validations. Validations can be defined once on the model, but will be validated on the Flex client as well as the LC DS
2. You no longer have to create DAO and actionscript classes. We automatically generate this from the model. The generated code is visible to developers and can be easily extended to provide your own behavior.
3. You no longer have to implement custom assemblers to provide data management. For each entitiy defined, we automatically provide CRUD functionality out of the box.  LC DS server uses the data model to provide this functionality
4. The data model can be deployed from Flex Builder (or dropped to a folder in LC DS) to an active LC DS server dynamically. You don’t have to worry about configuring destination, we automatically create them.
5. FlexBuilder will provide a new feature called the service browser. LC DS data model will be available as services from which you can drag and drop to a design view to create Flex applications.

Here is what we were able to do in 10 minutes at Max:

1. Create a MySQL database with 2 tables Company and Employee. An employee has to belong to a company
2. Create a data model from the database using a wizard in FlexBuilder (This automatically generates the actionscript classes)
3. Deploy the model to the LC DS server (This automatically configures the destinations, and adds the CRUD functionality on the server at run time)
4. Using the services generated form the data model, create a Flex UI in FlexBuilder design view
5. Run the flex application

Note: we did not configure the server or write a single line of code on the LC DS server for this demo. I will soon post a visual of this demonstration.