I completely agree with Tim's comment. It is a "bad" idea to exactly mimic your java business objects on the client side especially if you use a rich domain model where you apply OO principles (e.g. objects are responsible of their integrity). There is nothing available today to seamlessly translate your objects' behaviour thus resulting in a double maintenance. This is the main challenge of using a rich client. GAS3 only translates your object's state to a certain extent (the pb you had with java.net.*) and not their behaviour. But the good news is : the problem can be solved by introducing an extra (yet generic) layer that takes care of synchronizing the client GUI state with your server domain model by exchanging hierachical DTOs that can be used by the flex front-end. This DTO structure becomes the Flex model and you can use the GAS3 generator on these ones. Once you have this generic DTO layer, you can re-use it across your projects. and do not care anymore of client-server synchronization.
> I usually separate out at least two different models in a project, > depending on size. One I think of as the business model, concerned > with modeling the problem domain and business logic in pure Java. The > other I think of as the 'M' in 'MVC', which functions as transfer > objects across the Flex API and as the client model on the Flex side. > It's nice since there is usually some "flattening" that can be done in > mapping between the two to make things much easier on the Flex side, > especially since having different models and mapping between them is > something Java is very good at. > > That said, I run generator-mojo on the Java transfer objects and > generally want everything in those objects to show up on the Flex > side. I don't know if there is a way or how to exclude methods or > attributes from the generator-mojo. > > -- Tim > -- Vincent Vandenschrick Jspresso Framework http://www.jspresso.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex Mojos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/flex-mojos?hl=en?hl=en http://blog.flex-mojos.info/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
