TIP: Make Sling Testing Framework work


We have been trying to find the right mix of unit testing (Automated) in our project, and I have been looking at various options that Sling has to offer. This was done for development of AEM based projects. I tried to follow a few articles to help me get started and each one of those […]

BlazeDS and Spring


A few days back I posted the latest addition in Spring family – Flex with Spring. Being a huge spring and flex fan, I was very excited. Now able to reuse Spring knowlege in Adobe Flex is a wonderful idea. I faced a few challenges in using the solution and discussed the same on the […]

Handling Dates across different geographies


This is a tricky one – evaded me for a while. Synopsis of the issue: Flex messaging (BlazeDS is what we were using) deals with dates in a very special way. The dates are transferred to/from client / server post conversion to UTC and then they get converted to what local time zone. Let me […]

Flex talking to a PHP backend


I am no PHP expert and to not intend to be one, but while I was searching how to integrate Flex with different backends, i came across some tutorials that i believe would help others: http://devzone.zend.com/article/11-Integrating-Adobe-Flex-and-PHP http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/features/video/mihai_corlan/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/php_getstarted.html http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/2019