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Here is a new screencast that walks through the basics of integrating Flex 4 and Java:

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Tomorrow night, Wednesday Feburary 10 2010, I’ll be speaking to the London Java Community about RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex. I hope to see you there!

UPDATE 1: Flash Builder 4, BlazeDS 4, and Spring 1.0.3 have all been release so you no longer have to use beta or nightly builds of these products. Use the production versions!

UPDATE 2: A Refcard on Integrating Spring 3 and Flex 4, which I co-authored, is now available! It provides a step-by-step tutorial for setting up everything I show in the video below.

Last week I posted a screencast that walks through the basics of connecting a Flex 4 application to a Java / Spring back-end with the new Data Wizards in Flash Builder 4. Here is a new video that extends beyond just simple RPC method calls and adds Hibernate for persistence. Let me know what you think.

UPDATE 1: Flash Builder 4, BlazeDS 4, and Spring 1.0.3 have all been release so you no longer have to use beta or nightly builds of these products. Use the production versions!

UPDATE 2: I’ve done a second part to this screencast that combines Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Spring 3, BlazeDS 4, and Hibernate 3.

UPDATE 3: A Refcard on Integrating Spring 3 and Flex 4, which I co-authored, is now available! It provides a step-by-step tutorial for setting up everything I show in the video below.

Here are a few upcoming Flex and Java presentations I’ll be giving:

• Thursday October 29 in Zurich - RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex
• Thursday November 12 in Dallas - Java and Flex
• Friday November 13 in Plano, TX - Flex and the Cloud @ TexFlex09

I hope to see you there!

This month I’ll be presenting about Flex and Java at the Chicago and Ann Arbor Java User Groups:

• Chicago - September 15
• Ann Arbor - September 22

Also on September 22 I’ll be doing a Flex Jam in Ann Arbor (all day coding and exploration).

I hope to see some of you at one of these events!

I’ll be in Florida next week for a few great Flex and Java events:

• Tuesday August 25 - Flex Jam in Winter Park, FL - This is a bring your own laptop, self-paced learning event. Anyone, at any level of Flex knowledge is welcome.
• Wednesday August 26 - Flex and Java at the GatorJUG
• Thursday August 27 - Flex and Java at the Orlando JUG

If you live in Florida then I hope to see you at these events!

I’ll be presenting about Flex and Java at some Java User Groups over the next few weeks. Here’s the lineup:

• Sacramento - August 11
• San Diego - August 18
• Detroit - August 19
• Salt Lake City - August 20

Hope to see you at one of these JUGs!

I recently recorded a podcast with James Sugrue for DZone. In the podcast we talk about why Flex and Adobe AIR are relevant to Java developers. You can either listen to the podcast or read transcribed text. It’s good to see DZone doing a lot more Flex related content including the Refcardz I’ve co-authored: Very First Steps in Flex and Flex and Spring Integration.

Let me know what you think of the podcast. Thanks!

Next week I’m off to a few more Java User Groups to talk about Flex and Java integration:

• Portland - April 21st
• Cincinnati - April 23rd

Also while I’m in Portland I’ll be speaking on April 22nd at the PDX RIA User Group about “Super fast, multi-threaded, number crunching in Flash”.

I hope to see some of you along the way!