Comments on: A bunch of Flex Builder plugins is almost ready

By: Ram

Ram — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:34:18 +0000

I am using Flex Builder 2. I don’t know how to with SQL Server. Please help me. Thanks in Advance

By: anatole tartakovsky

anatole tartakovsky — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:31:09 +0000

Cameron,
There are at least 3 implementations of treegrid component that we have in our products now. I would recommend you to get a spec what the control suppose to do as the best implementation is going to differ drastically depending on if you need to support cascade retrieval and support in-place editing. The most generic one is explained in chapter 9 of the book.

Regards,
Anatole

By: anatole tartakovsky

anatole tartakovsky — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:26:29 +0000

FlexBI is going to be presented on AjaxWorld conference in New York by Yakov and Victor next week. We are running private beta with the current / prospective clients at this point. As far as the rest of the plugins, they should be released next week.
Thank you,
Anatole

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:43:23 +0000

Any news on when you will be showing FlexBI? I am pretty interested in using it…

By: cameron

cameron — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:47:07 +0000

What I would like to know is if the TreeGrid component used in the logger is available as well?

By: anatole tartakovsky

anatole tartakovsky — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:39:58 +0000

Mike.
Flex2Ant is going to be announced within 2 weeks (360Flex, EclipseCon and Ajax World are the shows that will have demos showing some of the plugins)
Regards,
Anatole

By: Mike Crowe

Mike Crowe — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:28:40 +0000

What’s the schedule for releasing the Flex2ant?

By: Rajesh,H

Rajesh,H — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:14:03 +0000

I am using Flex Builder 2 plug in. I am unable to connect Database (Oracle). Please anyone give me suggestions. Thanks in advance.

By: Anatole Tartakovsky

Anatole Tartakovsky — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:32:13 +0000

Campbell,

DaoFlex has so many templates accumulated for years, we just forgetting to mention them concentrating on latest and gratest features. In order to create ActionScript counterpart for Java class you just need to enable codegenerator – look for section with ClassFocMetadata:
codegen.java2as.template.ClassDocMetadata.name=ClassDocMetadata
codegen.java2as.template.ClassDocMetadata.src=@bypass
;– output metadata
codegen.java2as.template.ClassDocMetadata.out=$(metadataPath)\\$(packagePath)\\$(baseName).xml

Next; you can place the following doclet tag just before the class definition (complete syntax including which props to exclude, output package, managed/bindable, identity template, etc are listed in documentation somewhere : )
/**
* @daoflex:actionscript
*/
That should produce all your Actionscript DTOs, deployment descriptors for annotated methods and other artifacts common for J2EE world.

Based on the late stream of questions and requests we probably will change a tune a bit and provide more examples on how you can greatly benefit by DoaFlex seamless DataServices integration and automatic client-side state management.

Hope this helps,
Anatole

By: Anatole Tartakovsky

Anatole Tartakovsky — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:15:28 +0000

Flex2Ant allows you to produce build.xml for standalone build. As the project moves from development to staging/testing server to production it is common to make “command-line” build that is tools independent – often executed in unix/linux environment, as a part of bigger build/deployment process. Flex2Ant automates creation of such build file and allows you to customize building templates for your deployment environment. Typical production tasks we use it for that are a bit of a pain within IDE:
1. Building debug and debug-free versions side by side
2. Creation of self initialized libraries (our variation of modules)
3. Deployment to multiple environments including secured uploads

Hope this helps,
Anatole

By: Jamie Badman

Jamie Badman — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:25:15 +0000

The Logger looks outstanding – can’t wait for that. A question about the ANT2Flex though – what advantages will this give me over simply building the project through FlexBuilder ?

Cheers,

Jamie.

By: Anatole Tartakovsky

Anatole Tartakovsky — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:04:31 +0000

DaoFlex does all that – essentially it has few switchable (per Java class) templates you can use to generate DataServices, light DataServices and “old school shoot from the hip” client-server binding. That implies we generate matching Java and ActionScript DTOs, implemented all getters/setters/IManaged or Bindable interfaces on ActionScript side and ChangeObject on the server, manage state on the client without you even needing to send the “update” events, and made sure that we transparently support rpc and dataservices implementations that you might have implemented already. Of course, we generate DAO/DTO code and wrappers/deployment descriptors that can be used by both POJO and DataServices implementation. Ans it is hot deployed with backround building processes.
I think I covered basic functions – the old article on DaoFlex is on Adobe net http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/daoflex.html – that is based on beta version of Flex 2 before it was released. I think Victor has a great write-up on innerworking of DataServices and ligther implementations based on the projects we had – WIll ask him to blog the main points.

Regards,
Anatole Tartakovsky

By: Campbell

Campbell — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:59:48 +0000

What about a plugin that generates getters and setters, or a class generator, these and many more ideas I wish were in flex builder…..

By: stef

stef — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:14:23 +0000

very impressive! STEF