In my first posting concerning BlazeDS, I described the effort it took for me to convert from remoting with GraniteDS to remoting with BlazeDS. I have been expanding my knowledge of BlazeDS by studying messaging and plan to write a posting that extends the examples given in the turnkey distribution to include an honest-to-goodness JMS example. But first I would like to share what I have learned since my initial BlazeDS posting.
The BlazeDS product suite is extremely well documented. Adobe has written a BlazeDS Developers Guide that is over 170 pages long and it is chocked full of good information (they also include a turnkey download distribution that demonstrates the various forms of remoting and messaging). Now like all good developers I’m sure you all read the documentation from beginning to end before you ever dive into code. Right. I like to get the big picture first then start working with the product so that I can wrap my brain around the concepts a bit easier. I will then go back in fill in the details by reading the documentation again. So as a practical introduction to BlazeDS, I converted an existing application from GraniteDS to BlazeDS.
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