Flex Data Services, Hibernate and Eclipse

About This Book

This book explains how to design, build and test the server-side Java stack of an application built with the Adobe Flash Platform. Using the tools and techniques described in this book series, one or two people can put together a client-server system that would have required at least a dozen people ten years ago, in a similar time. What’s more, the software stack described in this book can support tens of thousands of simultaneous users per server CPU, with excellent responsiveness, high reliability and presentation-quality graphics.

Because access to remote data sources is part of many applications, the free open source BlazeDS package is discussed with working code examples, as well as its big brothers, the LiveCycle products. This book also covers Hibernate, an object-relational mapping technology and shows how it works with databases, including reverse engineering ORM POJOs from a database schema, and creating a schema from POJOs.

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Target Audience

Flex Data Services, Hibernate and Eclipse is intended for experienced architects and programmers who would like to design and implement non-trivial applications using the Adobe Flash Platform using a Java EE back end.

You should be familiar with Eclipse and programming in Java, and be able to make a “Hello, World!” Flex application before reading this book. There is no need to be a Flex expert. No prior experience with Hibernate or BlazeDS is assumed.