This excerpt describes the process of creating a complete Flex-Java distributed application. Upgrading Flex applications to Java Enterprise Edition applications is done with Flex Data Services. FDS provides transparent access to POJO, EJBs, and JMS and comes with adapters for frameworks like Spring and Hibernate.
These powerful capabilities come free for a single-CPU server, otherwise see your local Adobe dealer. Flex can also invoke any SOAP Web Service or send an HTTP request to any URL via Web Services and HTTPService components. Here we will illustrate Flex controls, HTTPService, RemoteObject, and Consumer via two versions of a stock portfolio application. The first version will show communications between Flash and a plain old Java object (POJO) using Flex remoting. We'll also explain how to use the HTTPService to read the RSS news feed. In the other version we'll add the stock (aka security) price feed using Flex Messaging and the Java Messaging Service (JMS). While explaining the FDS capabilities, we will also walk you through a typical design with Flex containers.
