Introducing the Adobe Flash Platform and Java EE Series

Free Tool

Here is a free tool for understanding and using Flex Data Services. You can use the Channel Designer without charge.

This tool help you to easily understand and design channels and endpoints for BlazeDS. A version of these tools that supports the enhanced channels and endpoints provided by LiveCycle Data Services ES is provided at no additional charge when you purchase Flex Data Services, Hibernate and Eclipse.

This book series describes how to develop enterprise-class software using Adobe Flex and AIR on the client side and Java EE backends. 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 series can support tens of thousands of simultaneous users per server CPU, with excellent responsiveness, high reliability and presentation-quality graphics.… Read more.

Early Access Books

Flex Data Services, Hibernate and Eclipse,
First Edition

PDF $32.00 USD

This book explains how to design, build and test the Flex Data Services and the server-side Java stack of an application built with the Adobe Flash Platform. Java EE technology such as Tomcat and Hibernate are covered in detail, including reverse engineering ORM POJOs from a database schema, and creating a schema from POJOs… Read more.

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Early access subscriptions provide you with continuous updates to the books and the code examples. The subscription lasts until the book is released.

Upcoming Books

Adobe Flex Frameworks, First Edition

Q2 2010

PDF $32.00

This book explains how to use a framework to improve the design and accelerate the implementation of a Flex application. Because access to remote data sources is part of many applications, the free open source BlazeDS package is discussed throughout with working code examples.… Read more.

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News

Mike Slinn was interviewed at Adobe MAX 2009 by DZone about the LCDS Reference card. The video and transcript is available here.
Build 1699 of "Flex Data Services, Hibernate and Eclipse" was published Oct 24/09.
The DZone Refcard on LCDS that Mike wrote is available.