With the GA release of Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.5.0, it is time (overdue, in fact) that I officially address the state of the Flex Addon for Spring Roo with the community.

As many of you have noticed, there has been relatively little activity on the addon since the M1 release, other than occasional updating of the codebase to try to bring it up to par with the latest Spring Roo releases. Unfortunately, we just haven't had the necessary resources to dedicate proper effort to the addon, and I don't see that changing anytime soon as the Spring Web Team and Spring Roo Team are both already swamped with plenty of work. As I am personally moving on from focusing on Flex to focusing the majority of my development time on WaveMaker (see Rod's blog in case you missed it: http://blog.springsource.com/2011/03...res-wavemaker/), I wanted to reach out to the community in hopes that we can find some people interested in contributing to keeping the Flex Addon alive.

What I am officially proposing today is that we make the Flex Addon a wholly community-driven project, a la the Spring Extensions projects such as Spring ActionScript. Quite a number of you have expressed interest in seeing the project continue, and some of you have expressed interest in actually contributing, so I think it's time that rubber meets the road. I really believe that the people working on the Flex Addon should be people who actually spend a lot of their time building Flex applications. You are the ones who really understand the potential day-to-day pains that the Flex Addon could alleviate. The work I did on the M1 release should provide an excellent foundation for this. Honestly, I should have made this call to the community sooner (eternal optimist that I am, I kept holding out hope that I would get the time to finish what I started), but better late than never I suppose.

I am preparing to move the current spring-flex SVN repo over to Github, and in doing so I intend to split the Flex Addon back out into a separate project. In the process, I will prepare a README to describe how to set up a development environment. I hope that this will make it easer for anyone interested to start getting involved. I will be happy to review and merge pull requests for the time being and provide as much feedback as I can even though I don't have the time to contribute code myself at the moment. I would like this to evolve naturally and see how it goes. Hopefully through this process, a clear new "owner" for the project will emerge.

Again, I apologize that it took me so long to formally do this.

I'd greatly appreciate your thoughts and feedback here on this thread, especially if you are interested in contributing!