The Space For App Developers

New version of GraniteDS 1.1 was released yestarday. Granite is an open source alternative to LCDS/BlazeDS Adobe products. It introduces several cool features and the one I like most is Tide framework that allows very tight integration with JBoss Seam framework which runs on the server side. Future versions will also support Spring and EJB3 on similar level as Seam is currently.

Also brand new Granite Eclipse Builder was released, it is very handful eclipse plugin that can generate AS3 classes based on Java Entity beans.

More info can be found on here.

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For those of you that don’t like to configure your AIR application badge manually I recommend to check out this new Badger application, it can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/badger_for_air_apps.html

This is really very cool and simple app, I think it would be nice if it was included into Flex Builder or part of SDK in the future releases.

For Polish community I posted a short intro on: http://blog.flextech.pl/2008/09/24/badger-10/

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I decided to move my blog to WordPress instead having it on blogspot (here is the link to still working version of my previous blog walczyszyn.blogspot.com), this way I have more freedom and flexibility. I will also port few of my latest blogs.

Referring to my previous post I prepared a little AIR application called SWFFinder that helps its users to find certain classes in swf files located on your drive. It can be useful when you have tons of swfs all around and cant find wanted classes. App recursively scans all folders under selected path. I encourage anyone to use it and to share your experience, be aware that this is an alpha stage product

It can be downloaded from here: http://alterapps.pl/adobe/examples/SWFFinder/SWFFinder.air

If you want to look into the source code and check how I used getDefinitionNamesSource library by Denis Kolyako you can check it out here: http://alterapps.pl/adobe/examples/SWFFinder/srcview/

It is also accessible through SVN: http://svn.assembla.com/svn/riaspace-swffinder/

I got into an issue how to problematically examine all classes loaded into my SWF file. After some search it occurred that unfortunately there is not an easy way yet. Good news is that I found two libraries available that can do what I was looking for, below you can find links:

http://www.bytearray.org/?p=175
http://etcs.ru/pre/getDefinitionNamesSource/

BTW: I will be lobbying my colleagues at Adobe to add this in the future releases

Follow this link to my old tutorial that I should have published long time ago
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P.S. Here is some discussion that we had on GraniteDS forum: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/graniteds/message/1863

I would like to welcome everyone on my new blog site riaspace.net related to RIA field especially around Flex and AIR technologies. For those of you that don’t know me yet my name is Piotr Walczyszyn, I’m working for Adobe Systems as Platform Evangelist.