Category Archives: blazeds

March 2009 – RIA Buzz >> NewsFlash 0

The March 2009 issue Adobe’s NewsFlash is out.  This is the monthly newsletter for Flash Platform Developers that used to be called RIA Buzz.  I like the new name, as it points out that we’re talking about the entire Flash platform, including AIR, Flex, PDF, server side, Ajax, and more.
Check out the issue and sign [...]

Useful Patterns for BlazeDS 1

While running the Los Angeles Flex Users Group I got a lot of questions from people about how BlazeDS could fit into their existing infrastructure.
Typically, they will have an application container, such as JBoss, or maybe just a servlet container, like Tomcat, and a SQL backend. Usually MySQL or PostgresSQL. JSPs are [...]

BlazeDS, Spring, and Acegi Security – Part 3 4

Update: The “start”-method-not-getting-called bug is now a filed in the adobe bug tracker: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/BLZ-190
This post is another baby step in getting acegi/spring security and blazeds to work together. The whole purpose of these exercises is to for acegi to handle authentication/authorization and destination security. Even bypassing container security.
In the last part I talked [...]

BlazeDS, Spring, and Acegi Security – Part 2 2

In an earlier post I talked about BlazeDS and Spring Security and gave a high level overview of how to get a BlazeDS destination to be secured with Acegi security instead of BlazeDS’ security. However, I overlooked a simple thing that would make the whole system play nicer with Flex. That is, [...]

Battle for the Green: LA vs SF, Unrelated: Adobe Open Source Project Management 0

I was just catching up on my SFist LAist reading and was reading through the comments on a post linking to an LATimes story comparing LA to SF on a green scale. turns out sf wins. Then I saw this comment I thought “Oh no you di’n’t”
i have always promoted the awesomeness [...]

BlazeDS and Spring Security 3

I’ve been trying to figure out how to use Acegi security with BlazeDS, hopefully working it in with Spring MVC and this is what I ended up with. If anyone has other suggestions please let me know. This is a topic that really needs discussing.
The way you secure a destination in BlazeDS is [...]