So this presentation will be based off the foundation of the preceding talk, “The Mechanics of BlazeDS”. In last month’s presentation we went over how to integrate Flex with RESTful web services using HttpService. This month, we’re going to get into the details of using the RemoteObject class for RPC calls as well as the Producer and Consumer classes for messaging. I am going to be getting my hands dirty with a mix of ActionScript, MXML, and (a little) Java code. My examples will include the work I had to do to configure BlazeDS as well as any ActionScript and MXML code that I had to write for my examples to work.

As a disclaimer, I will be showing examples using FlexBuilder 3 with a couple peeks into the Java side of things For those of you who are not familiar with Java, please keep in mind, everything I show can be done with CFCs, it’s just a little more work to set up CF server, so I’m only doing this in the spirit of brevity. For those of you who are familiar with Java, please keep in mind, everything I show you in the presentation with Flex messaging can be re-used to integrate with any existing JMS implementation. And if you think that’s cool, wait until you see the AMF gateway in action.

Hopefully I can keep the presentation short in favor of people really hashing through the details of the code on our SVN server while still touching on the major points. See you at the meeting.