Group items tagged

new entity has no id until it has been persisted to the database

take care that you have added the [Lazy] annotation to your Flex metadata compilation configuration

for GraniteDS users keeping their Java domain model and ActionScript3 domain model in sync via Gas3, the constraints are kept in sync

a couple of gotchas to be aware of

the constraint implementation is in the same class as the constraint declaration (not a problem in a dynamic language) @Pattern has a sightly different semantic because the regexp engine in Flex is a bit different. instead of the features provided by ConstraintValidatorContext, you can define a properties attribute in your constraints to make it belong to several sub-properties. not as flexible but good enough in many cases.

highly recommended to use JPA optimistic locking in a multi-tier environment (@Version annotation)

Tip The easiest and recommended way for getting Tide enabled managed entities is to generate them from Java classes with Gas3 or the GDS Eclipse builder using the tide="true" option.

In a typical Flex/app server/database application, an entity lives in three layers: the Flex client the Hibernate/JPA persistence context the database

only invariant is the id.

id reliably links the different existing versions of the entity in the three layers

GraniteDS validation framework provides a set of standard constraints

Constraint Description AssertFalse The annotated element must be false AssertTrue The annotated element must be true DecimalMax The annotated element must be a number whose value must be lower or equal to the specified maximum DecimalMin The annotated element must be a number whose value must be greater or equal to the specified minimum Digits The annotated element must be a number whithin accepted range Future The annotated element must be a date in the future Max The annotated element must be a number whose value must be lower or equal to the specified maximum Min The annotated element must be a number whose value must be greater or equal to the specified minimum NotNull The annotated element must not be null Null The annotated element must be null Past The annotated element must be a date in the past Pattern The annotated String must match the supplied regular expression Size The annotated element size must be between the specified boundaries (included)

must use

Note that the bundle name must always be set to "ValidationMessages".

Note that dpHibernate doesn't depend on Spring

entity classes must implement the org.dphibernate.core.IHibernateProxy interface, both on the Java and Actionscript classes

Spring, Seam, Ejb, Cdi

Client-side setup for remoting

initialize manually the Flex remoting channels that will be used by Tide

use the DefaultServiceInitializer component

JSR-303 (“Bean Validation”) ActionScript3 framework for form validation

validation framework is a specific adaptation of the JSR-303 (Bean Validation) specification to Flex: like its Java counterpart, it relies on validation annotations placed on bean properties and provides an engine API that lets you validate your forms without writing by hand a specific validator for each of your input fields

code generation tools provided by GraniteDS so that when you write your Java entity bean with validation annotations, they are automatically replicated in your ActionScript3 beans

problem with LCDS is mainly that it promotes a strict “client / server” architecture, with – roughly speaking – a heavy Flex client application connected to a server almost reduced to a database frontend

big majority of  these organizations use BlazeDS, a free and open-source subset of LCDS

need more advanced mechanisms than just Remoting start looking for open-source libraries to enable deeper integrations with the Java business layer, and GraniteDS is for sure the most popular project

“Flex Data Services” (now renamed to “Live Cycle Data Services”)

Flex Data Services seemed too “client-centric”

Extract/replace AMF data during the test in order to variabilize the calls

Automatically handle the session IDs used by AMF

GraniteDS now fully supports Hibernate 4

use the granite-hibernate4.jar instead of granite-hibernate.jar

Flex 4.5 broke a few APIs and there were two main issues with Tide : The client libraries crashed when run in a mobile application The PagedQuery was unusable

These two issues are now fixed

granite-flex45.swc

Flex SDK 4.5 here

In short, it provides much easier configuration of the backend infrastructure and services you want to expose to the client and it integrates perfectly with the Spring application contexts and the Spring programming model in general.