In my article on InfoQ I've looked into how Grails and Flex can be combined to create a rapid application development platform. I think this is one of the most promising combinations for RIA development at the moment. The Flex space is very happening and there are many initiatives going on. A few days ago I encountered this one on the web: http://www.spicefactory.org/. Apart from the funny name, I think it is a very interesting initiative, because it brings some new concepts to the Flex remoting mix.

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Tags: cinnamon, EntityManager, Flex, flex integration, flex remoting, Grails, Hibernate, JPA, parsley, pimento, spicefactory
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My recent assignment at Albumprinter gave an opportunity to play with flex testing tools available out there. Coming back to serious flex development after more than a year was a pleasant surprise. The state of flex when I last did something on it was for sure not “mature”. There weren’t many frameworks around.

But things have changed a great deal since then. Not only do we have frameworks implementing MVC (Cairngorm) but also some standard extensions (UM extensions) to those frameworks, we also have spring like IOC frameworks (Prana) for Flex.
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Tags: Flex, Testing, Tools
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