LCDS Beta coming soon
As most of you have already heard of FlashBuilder4 (used to be called FlexBuilder) is going beta soon. We have added a lot of capability to FlashBuilder and LCDS server that would make the application development process fun and interesting. We will soon be releasing a public beta of LCDS.
Besides model driven development, we have made a lot of additional features and improvements in the product. Watch out on this space and I will provide more updates on this soon.
BlazeDS LGPL V3 clearing up the confusion
I have had several questions on using BlazeDS in applications, and hence decided to create a post that addresses some of the confusion.
The Free Software Foundations GPLv3 and LGPLv3 are popular licenses, but each comes with associated risks. Since it is possible for source code under either of these to cross the boundary into your own code, every company must have their own policies when it comes to using or including GPL and LGPL software into their own offerings.
BlazeDS is distributed under a LGPL V3 license. You should check your company policy of using a GPL or LGPL software license in your product. For some companies a closed souce license may work better. Adobe offers a closed source license, which includes support and platform certification, for BlazeDS. Please contact Garen Ingleby if this is of interest to you.
BlazeDS is only supported by the community through the discussion forums. This may not be a problem for many of you, but in several cases it would be worthwhile to use open source code that is backed by Enterprise support and Platform Certification. Adobe goes through a rigorous testing and platform certification process that enables us to offer enterprise support and platform certification. Sorry for the confusion, but the support and platform certification is called “LiveCycle Data Service Community Edition” You can purchase this directly from Adobe.com for roughly $4K. Follow this link for more details.
Upcoming Changes
We understand that many of you are looking for exceptional value when it comes to BlazeDS and LC DS. We are working on a proposal internally to address just that. Watch out, I will post more details as we finalize this proposal.
Another Demo – Spring Integration
I had talked about Blaze DS and LC DS integration with Spring (Catch up). Here is a short demo.
Model driven development Demo
It has taken some time, but we now have the Model driven development demo available to you all. Please note this demo is a very early release of Gumbo (FlexBuilder Next) and LCDS Next. The actual implementation can be different from what you see in the demo.
Check out my previous post to know more Model Driven Development
Share your experience using Blaze DS and LC DS
I am looking for practioners who would like to share their experience using Blaze DS and/or LC DS. You could talk about how these products helped with some of the projects that you have worked or working. This could be on any aspect of the product – Remoting, Proxy, PDF, Messaging, Data Management etc.
We are consolidating similar articles to make it available on Adobe’s developer network. This would enable others users of the community to learn or be aware of your experiences. These articles would be reviewed to make sure we don’t have duplicates. Once approved these articles will be published on the developer network.
Check out an example of how this would look.
This is a great way to share your knowledge and be an active participant in the community. Please contact me (anilc@adobe.com) for further information.
Creating PDF using LC DS
Very handy, but a relatively undiscovered capability in LC DS. Did you know you can create a PDF at run-time from data in your Flex application using LC DS? Check out this video (on Adobe TV) for more information.
Has anyone used this capability in LC DS? I would love to hear your experience.
RTMP specification to be published
This is great news for all the tool vendors and product vendors that have wanted to support RTMP in their product and could not in the past. Adobe today announced publishing the RTMP specification in first half of 2009. You can read more information about the press release here: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200901/012009RTMP.html
I am curious to hear what you think of this announcement and how this can help you. Feel free to contact me (anilc@adobe.com) if you are looking to extend RTMP support in your product in conjunction with Blaze DS or LC DS.
Also note, this has no impact to Blaze DS or LC DS roadmap at this time.
Spring M1 for Blaze DS released
The first release of BlazeDS and Spring integration has just been released. Jeremy’s blog provides a detailed writeup on how to get your Blaze DS and Spring project up and running.
This release addresses the basic bootstrapping and RemoteService. Please watch out for updates such as
- REST Support
- Integration with Spring Security
- Integration with Blaze DS Messaging
Note: The same configuration described by Jeremy should work with LC DS. If anyone has tried this configuration, let me know.
Got comments? Feel free to contact me, but the best way to get your feedback is to participate in the Spring Blaze DS Integration Forum
LCDS BlazeDS and Spring
Today Adobe and Springsource announced integration betweeen the Flash Platform and SpringSource. More details here
You can also search for Adobe Collaborates with SpringSource in google for more links
Key highlights
- REST support (in addition to AMF) for business logic deployed BlazeDS and LCDS
- An option to configure BlazeDS and LC DS components using Spring configuration
Benefits:
- Create your business logic once and access it over AMF from Flex and REST from AJax/HTML clients
- Easy to expose your existing spring beans over AMF to Flex clients. This should help in migrating existing Enterprise Java applications to leverage Flex/AIR
The best thing is that this new integration adapter from Spring will work with your existing version of BlazeDS and LC DS 
There will be more details to follow, but I wanted to give you all an update.
What’s in LC DS Next
What do you think (and why) will be in the next version of LC DS? Want to guess?
I have already talked about Model Driven development, but there is more than that
p.s: If you guess correctly you will have the option to be included in the pre-release program in early 2009.
