In Recent years Flex has become the ideal client solution for Java server based projects. Flex compliments Java in many ways and has many similarities to Java. These include, the syntax, the OOP approach and many other features of the two languages that are similar.

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate one aspect of the Flex Java integration by covering the earliest stage of the development process, which is the build and infrastructure creation. In future posts I will cover later stages of the development.

VO\DTO Generation
The VO generation process converts the existing server side entity classes to client side entity classes. At the end of the process each server side DTO\Entity class will have a client side corresponding class, enabling easy communication between the client and server.

'Maven 3.x will be the version Maven for the people', says Jason van Zyl, and it does look promising!

At the moment there is a 3.0.alpha.6 version released, I could't find any roadmap or dates for the planned main release yet.

I didn't have a chance to "play around" enough with this release to be able to say that all that promised is there :), but I've summarized some main issues from the Maven 3.x previews I found in several blogs/presentations/apache info pages:

* Backward compatibility

- Loads of Integration testing is done to ensure backwards compatibility

- Stricter validation of the POM is added

- Configured plugins should have their versions specified (a warning appears otherwise)

* Site/reporting is now completely extracted from the Maven core