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Copy Fully Qualified Classname Plugin for Flash Builder 4 (CFQCN)

2010-09-01T22:41:12-02:00

I created a little add-on for Flash Builder 4 which gives you a "Copy Fully Qualified Name" entry to the context menu in the MXML/AS3-Editors of Flash Builder. This is especially useful if you're creating new skin classes in Flex 4 and need to know t...

AMF Explorer Add-on for Firefox

2010-03-04T15:16:07-02:00

Nathan Mische's AMF Explorer is a nice add-on for Firefox which allows to seamlessly debug AMF traffic from within Firefox. Looks very promising, especially as the capturing of the AMF packets seems to be written in JS (not sure, though). https://ad...

My W-JAX 09 Slides

2009-11-13T15:47:42-02:00

In case you missed this year's W-JAX conference, here are the slides for my session "Flex and Spring integration". I'll post the demo files later. Enjoy! Dirk....

Adobe publishes RTMP specification

2009-06-16T09:08:04-02:00

As announced in January 2009, Adobe now published the specification for the former proprietary RTMP protocol. The specs can be downloaded for free from here, for more background information check Kevin Towes blog entry The EULA is pretty clear on pr...

CFLOOP: undocumented charset attribute for reading files

2009-06-10T16:18:57-02:00

ColdFusion 8 introduced a new feature which allows to use CFLOOP to read in a file line by line. This is a nice convenience method but I noticed that by default CFLOOP in this mode always uses iso-8859-1 encoding to read the file's content which of c...

Enabling SSL on ColdFusion 8 with integrated JRun

2009-06-10T10:14:36-02:00

I had a hard time configuring SSL on my local CF8 running with the integrated JRun (Developer Edition). I followed the common instructions for enabling SSL on CF (like here and here) but in the end I always kept getting strange error messages like "s...

Spring BlazeDS article available online

2009-05-28T17:12:43-02:00

My article "Spring trifft Flex" (Spring meets Flex) for the German Java Magazin is now available online for free. Check it out here!

Dirk.

Pass CF Array as serialized ArrayCollection from CF to Flex

2009-05-12T09:52:58-02:00

UPDATE: Sorry, my assumption was plain wrong. See my comment in the Comments section. By default, a CF Array is serialized to a native Flash Array when when using AMF3/Remoting between Flex and CF. If you want to pass a CF Array directly as an Array...

Distinguish between Flex Remoting and "normal" HTTP requests in ColdFusion

2009-05-08T09:43:00-02:00

After a lot of Flex and Java coding I'm currently doing a CF/Flex project again. I haven't really touched CF for quite some time and decided to use ColdSpring in this project just for getting an idea of it. I've used Spring in my past Java projects a...

RC1 of Spring BlazeDS Integration available

2009-05-07T08:39:41-02:00

Springsource just announced the availability of RC1 of the Spring BlazeDS Integration project.Some of the interesting new features are the option to export Remoting Destinations by using Java 5 Annotations instead of classic XML-wiring and full suppo...

German Java Magazin publishes my article on Spring BlazeDS Integration

2009-04-03T09:38:29-02:00

In the recent issue 05/09 of the German Java Magazin you'll find my article "Spring trifft Flex" (translation: "Spring meets Flex") where I show how to use Flex, BlazeDS and Spring together by using Spring BlazeDS Integration. Btw, it is a print mag...

HP releases tool to find security vulnerabilities in Flash/Flex applications

2009-03-24T08:38:54-02:00

HP?s Web Security Research Group has released a tool called SWFScan. The application aims at helping developers finding and fixing security issues in compiled SWF files.The tool first decompiles the SWF file (ActionScript 2 and 3 is supported) and th...

BlazeDS for .NET !?

2009-03-16T22:23:27-02:00

Update: the link does not work anymore :( While browsing the Adobe Open Source web page base I stumbled across the "BlazeDS for .NET" page - it's a bit early for April Fool's Day Joke so it seems as if Adobe finally brings AMF to the .NET platform. ...

Critical Update or Flash Player 9/10, Release and Debug versions

2009-02-26T09:01:08-02:00

Adobe has released a CRITICAL update for Flash Player 9 and 10 which fixes a security hole.IMPORTANT: you'll have to update your Debug-Players as well as the default update will only update the Release version of the installed Players! The Debug-Play...

Adobe Open Source down (kind of)?

2009-02-25T08:39:36-02:00

Anyone else experiencing that certain features of opensource.adobe.com are not working? Most notably, all the top menu links like Projects, Source are not working or give an error page here... UPDATE: seems that only the top level navigation is br...