Introduction
Adobe's Spry Ajax and JavaScript framework
provides web application developers
with a relatively easy to use collection of dynamic tags, widgets and Ajax features. Behind the scenes, Spry can use either XML or JavaScript Object N
Introduction
My next step in learning how to use JasperReports, is to integrate JasperReports into a Struts2 web application. There is a Struts2 JasperReports plugin (refer 1) that is part of the Struts2 download. Look for the jar named "st
Introduction
I recently had to research how to use JasperReports (refer. 1) to produce PDF, rich text format (RTF), and Excel reports using an ArrayList collection of Java objects as the source for the data in the report. The main Java class has
Introduction
In part 1, I covered how to create a JasperReport report using iReport. That report's data source is an ArrayList of Person objects. Each Person object also has an ArrayList of Phone objects. In part 2, I explain how to use the Jasp
Introduction
This is part 4 in my series on using Flex, BlazeDS, and Java. In this part I explain how I used Java to provide my Flex application with a collection of objects that were populated by records from a database. BlazeDS provides the pl
Introduction
This is part 3 of my series on how to use BlazeDS to enable Flex to communicate with Java on the backend. If you've not yet read parts 1 and 2, you should review them before continuing. In this blog entry I'll explain how I created
Introduction
This blog entry continues my exploration of how to use Flex, Java, and BlazeDS together. In this tutorial I explain how to send data from Flex to a Java class.
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Introduction
When you want to directly use Java classes to provide data to a Flex application you need to add some additional plumbing that enables Flex to "talk with" the Java classes. Flex comes ready to rock with ColdFusion Componen
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There may be occasions when a CFC function being used by Flex needs to throw a custom exception to alert the caller of the function that some problem has occurred during the function (1). If you're using Flex to call a CFC function
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I recently needed to add a print capability to a Flex application to allow the user to print the results being displayed in a DataGrid control. The print out would need to span multiple pages since the number of rows displayed in t