Yesterday I was excited about SpringSource helping out with building an improved version of BlazeDS which works even better with the Spring Framework. Today I read on InfoQ that SpringSource is indeed doing even more exciting stuff, they’re helping take Christophe Herreman’s Prana Framework to the next level. Spring ActionScript is the new name and this is really great news and everyone should get excited, right now!

Most of the current Flex/ActionScript frameworks tend to have the same problem, that they don’t focus upon developer productivity. They guys and girls at SpringSource have a great track record when it comes to creating developer friendly frameworks, so this is great news for those of us who’s batteled with Cairngorm and other MVC frameworks for some time.

December 10th, 2008 | Flex | No comments

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 You can say alot of good things about BlazeDS, but it’s very much an outdated piece of software and it really needs to take the next step.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

December 9th, 2008 | Flex | No comments