GraniteDS

[cherreman]

Hi all,

we're currently working on a project that uses GraniteDS and I was thinking that it might be worth adding support into Spring ActionScript. In particular, I'm looking into adding:

- auto registration of GraniteDS components when these are declared in a Spring ActionScript context.
- externalization of the endpoint configuration
- support for operations in service calls that replace the resultHandler/faultHandler arguments. This is by providing new operations that abstract the async calls for component operations and identity operations, but also providing custom templates for the GraniteDS code generator, GAS.
- a GraniteDS XML namespace

I know some on this forum have integrated GraniteDS in their Spring ActionScript projects. Is anyone up to providing some comments and insights on what would be useful?

best regards,
Christophe

[flex-guse]

Hi Christophe,

I'm using the combination of SpringActionscript and GraniteDS in some projects. They use Spring as JavaBackend in combination with Tide in backend and frontend, so I don't work with endpoints. It is enough to configure the context path where the backend can be found.
To access the Spring backend, I created a TideOperation which does the job. The TideOperation is configured with a TideController.

You can find a running example ( ok, DataManagement is not working ) in the SVN https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/flex-playg...tion-graniteds.

What definitely would be useful is an enhancement of the handling of modules.
If Tide is used, all Spring service result objects reside in the tideContext, so every module has a reference to the tideContext which causes the module can't be unloaded properly ( as far I understood that ).
I asked a question in the GraniteDS forum concerning this problem. Unfortunately I had no time yet to implement such a register/deregister mechanism.

Maybe it is a good idea to provide an archetype which sets up all basic things needed in the front- and the backend to work with SpringActionscript and GraniteDS.

Cheers,
Christoph