[flexcoders] Re: How do you format your code?

2007-01-29 Thread Charles Havranek
There is already a formatter built into eclipse, but I haven't had time to figure out how to make it work, as it's disabled the CTRL-ALT-F auto format eclipse feature, but what does work is copy and paste the code from the *.as & *.mxml files and paste into a *.java or *.xml file, then do the CT

[flexcoders] Re:Do I *REALLY* need Flex Data Services for WebServices?

2007-01-29 Thread Charles Havranek
Greg, Without Flex Data Services, I do get the basic error code & message , but have to look at server logs to see stack traces.

[flexcoders] Re: Does Flex work with Java without FDS?

2007-01-28 Thread Charles Havranek
Really depends on what you need to do, but per the below link it's not a recommended architecture. Isn't IT fun? :) http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/02/26/flash_remoting.html Use a Service-Oriented Architecture While you can directly access and invoke methods on servlets, JSPs, and EJ

[flexcoders] Re: Does Flex work with Java without FDS?

2007-01-28 Thread Charles Havranek
How are you on making web services? If you can do that I do have a code generator that creates a test UI and all supporting code to talk to the service using best practice patterns. (I still need to handle ArrayCollections to populate grids/dropdowns, but that's just a couple hours away and I p

[flexcoders] Re: Does Flex work with Java without FDS?

2007-01-27 Thread Charles Havranek
Oops, here's the XSD for the complex types FYI constructive comments welcome SalesDeveloper.xsd Description: 2098159505-SalesDeveloper.xsd

[flexcoders] Re: Does Flex work with Java without FDS?

2007-01-25 Thread Charles Havranek
Yes it does, you can use plain HTTP/HTTPS GET & POST or Web Services. (Maybe some others, but that's all I looked at) I end up using fine grained REST style Web Services which results in excellent performance and memory usage. I did find some problem returning multiple serialized unbounded

[flexcoders] Re: Code behind- do you use it?

2007-01-17 Thread Charles Havranek
Using the ARP framework @ http://osflash.org/ARP Once you get past a simple application a GUI framework is critical for maintainability. Takes a bit more to get going, but you end up reusing a lot of code.