Adobe AIR 1.1 is a small release that adds international support to AIR applications. In the future, the Flex team will release official updates to both the Flex SDK and Flex Builder that include the latest version of AIR. However, this particular release is happening off of the Flex release cycle, so to leverage the new functionality you must take some manual steps.
RIAs created with Flex can run in the browser using Adobe Flash® Player software or on the desktop on Adobe AIR™, the cross-operating system runtime. This enables Flex applications to run consistently across all major browsers and on the desktop. And using AIR, Flex applications can now access local data and system resources on the desktop. Both Flash Player and Adobe AIR are available as a free download on Adobe.com.
You can accelerate application development with Adobe Flex® Builder™ 3 software, a highly productive, Eclipse™ based development environment, and AdobeLive Cycle® Data Services software, a set of advanced data services that can be used in Flex development. Both of these products are available for purchase.
When you click the Load Blog Entries button my RSS feed entries are loaded into the datagrid. When you click on a row in the datagrid the corresponding entry is loaded into the text area.
Get the full url with the host name and port in actionscript?
There are several methods to help with this:
getHostName()
getPort()
getProtocol() -such as http or https
getContext() -The path after the hostname but before the url parameters
A common hurdle a developer may face is dealing with exceptions in BlazeDS. When an exception is thrown in Java, how do we handle this in flex? Here is a simple and flexible approach inspired by Scott Morgan.
1. Create a Java Class that extends RuntimeException.
package com.flexpasta.exception;
public class FlexException extends RuntimeException
{
public FlexException(String message)
{
super(message);
}
}
