Generating flex beans from Java ones and associated serialization code

Question

I have a project that uses Java on the server part and Flex on the client one.

Both sides will (of course) share some common classes (like the beans used to describe my model). Those sides will communicate using different mechanisms :

• SOAP web-services (using JAX-WS on the server part) when talking through the network
• Serialization. Indeed, this project is to be deployed on InDesign (both Java and Flex code will be there). in that case, we have found a way to send events from the Flex code to the Java one, which requires serialization.

So, I'm looking for a way to not repeat myself, and write the beans on one side only (and let the other side be generated - by any mean, maven, FlashBuilder, you name it). Do you know such a solution ?

Answer 1

You can use ClearToolkit which includes DTO2Fx.

Another option is Gas3 from Granite Data Services.