Chapter 5. Accessing Spring Beans

Although custom BlazeDS factories have helped remote to Spring beans for a while, the latest Spring BlazeDS integration project is the most comprehensive and officially supported solution to accessing the Spring framework facility from a Flex application. This chapter focuses exclusively on the Spring BlazeDS integration project. The current version of the Spring BlazeDS integration project is the 1.0.0.release.

The chapter assumes that you have some knowledge of the Spring framework. If you are a newbie who has no exposure to the Spring framework, then consider reading the following before moving ahead with the rest of this chapter:

• The first few chapters of the Spring framework reference documentation, available online at www.springsource.org/documentation.

• The Spring MVC tutorial, titled "Developing a Spring framework MVC application step-by-step," available online at http://static.springsource.org/docs/Spring-MVC-step-by-step/.

Let's start with basic bootstrapping and making BlazeDS work with Spring.