Category Archives: java

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, [...]

Flex Data Services and Tomcat Authentication – Part 2: Simple webapp and Eclipse Tomcat Debugging 1

It’s warming up in Los Angeles. Yay! So, before I take off for a nice walk along the beach I bring to you the second part in my series of flex+tomcat posts.
In this post I’ll create an Eclipse project for a simple web app and then hookup the Eclipse debugger to a possibly remote [...]