Spring MVC and Flex integration over BlazeDS? - apache-flex

Question

Which is the best way to integrate existent spring-MVC-Project with flex. I'am using Spring-2.5 lib with annotations.
e.g my list controller:
package xxx.xxx.controller;
#Controller
public class ListController {
#Autowired
private ColorHome colorHome;
#RequestMapping("/admin/colors.do")
public ModelMap colorsHandler() {
Collection<Object> colors = this.colorHome
.findColors();
return new ModelMap(colors);
}
I have also a colors.jsp which displays the colors. Now I would like to integrate flex as an UI-Layer. I only need to integrate the Spring-View with shown RequestMappings above.

Answer 1

Go get BlazeDS. Install it using the WAR file.
You'll also need the flex jar from Spring.
In your web.xml file, add this:
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/flexContext.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>flex</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>flex</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/messagebroker/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Create a flex-servlet.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:flex="http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">
</beans>
Create a flexContext.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:flex="http://www.springframework.org/schema/flex"
...
">
<flex:message-broker />
<flex:remoting-destination destination-id="flexService" ref="beanFromApplicationContext" />
</beans>
This should be enough to get you the remoting endpoints.
In Flex, create a remoteObject and give it a destination of "flexService" or whatever you set the destination-id on the to.

Answer 2

Spring has a project for its integration with Flex,BlazeDS and Java.
This might help you. Spring n Flex integration