Java AMF serialization

Question

I'm migrating from Drupal to Java.

I need to create a servlet to serve existing Flash player with server data.

Until now this was done with AMFPHP module.

I'm looking for a way to serialize a simple class.

OpenAMF seems like a good choice but I can't find any documentation or an example. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Take a look at BlazeDS

Highly configurable, good documentation ( open-sourced by Adobe ), servlet-based ( the BlazeDS serializer / deserializer is essentially a MessageBrokerServlet ) and it comes with the advantages of AMF -- faster, allows long-polling, push technologies etc.

Fairly easy to set up and begin using as well.

Answer 2

In theory, BlazeDS is the place to start as it is the official Adobe solution and it's open source. There's also GraniteDS , which I think has better documentation and this is where I'd start if I was doing it all over again.

If you go with BlazeDS, then I recommend the book Enterprise Development with Flex as the only decent source of information when you need to customize BlazeDS.