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Yesterday Adobe and SpringSource announced they are working together to make the Java and Flex platforms work together even better than they are today. Christophe Coenrates reports that SpringSource is working on a new project called Spring Data Services which is supposed to integrate BlazeDS even close with the Spring framework.
This is great news as the people of SpringSource tend to have a much better focus than Adobe on developer productivity and easy of use. You can say alot of good things about BlazeDS, but it’s very much an outdated piece of software and it really needs to take the next step.
Read the press release from SpringSource
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