Joe Rinehart

Just a note: if you use a Groovy String to send a string back to Flex via AMF (for example, 'return "My class name is ${this.class.name}"'), it will not be properly cast to an AS3 string unless you're doing so on a property of type "String" on an object you've set up as a RemoteClass. Instead, it shoes up in Flex as an Object because it goes over the wire as a GStringImpl.

Oh, c'mon, what did you think this post was about?

This is the first blog entry in a series (that'll be completed in an asynchronous manner...) about managing data with Flex. I've been talking to a number of ColdFusion and Java developers that encounter the same problems with using Flex in a real-world, non-classroom situation where managing data and instances becomes problematic. Through this series, we'll be exploring solutions to these problems.

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