The Adobe Flex Framework has been adopted by the Java community as the

preferred framework for Java RIAs development using Flash for the presentation

layer. Flex helps Java developers build and maintain expressive web and

desktop applications that deploy consistently on most web browsers and a

growing number of mobile devices.

Combining Flex and Java is the new frontier of web development. Spring,

Hibernate, and Maven have taken my application development to a higher

level, and in this book I show you how these technologies can do the same for

your development. With Java and Flash, our applications can be easier to maintain,

build, and test and they are completely portable. And with the release of

the FlashPlayer 9 and 10, Adobe has added ActionScript 3, which is now truly

object-oriented and offers even better performance in our RIAs.

I will help you work with these technologies by showing you Flex-Java development

step-by-step, starting with the development environment configuration,

then moving on to UML design, the Spring development, the Hibernate

development, Maven configuration, Flex development, and the BlazeDS server

configuration so that you can:

• Discover what Adobe Flex is and how to use it

• Create amazing client applications based on the FlashPlayer with Flex

• Learn to use Spring, Hibernate, or Maven with Flex

• Write more stable Java-based Flex applications and reusable code

After reading this book, you will be able to create amazing applications and

bring a new level of presentation to your Java applications using Flex.”