Building Flex Applications with Maven: Basic project setup
The Flex 3 Live Docs explain the usage of Ant to build your Flex project.
But what about using Maven instead? Velo has created a set of Maven goals (mojos) that provide the same features, and go even further than the Flex Ant tasks (e.g. including FlexCover support). This series of short posts lines out the usage of Flex-Mojos.
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Using BlazeDS with Jetty and a stand-alone ActiveMQ server
In order to use JMS messaging together with BlazeDS you have to connect BlazeDS to a message broker like ActiveMQ, OpenMQ, or JBoss Messaging.
The turnkey server which comes with BlazeDS is a Tomcat that uses an embedded ActiveMQ broker.
But what about using BlazeDS in a webapp that runs in Jetty and connects to a stand-alone ActiveMQ server?
This is especially interesting when building a BlazeDS/Flex app with Maven. How do I get the Maven Jetty plugin to talk to ActiveMQ?
This post lists the necessary steps.