3 full days of Flex talk are over. It was really great to see how everybody is trying to improve their experience with Flex. I found out about some new cool open source projects, I saw some live demos of how Flex interacts with other technologies and we even dived deep into the internals of Flex. Most importantly we (Felipe and I) got a few project ideas that would improve our development cycle (more on this later).
Since in our day to day development we use a combination of Java (JBoss Seam), Flamingo and Flex one session was of special interest to us: Lazy Loading using dpHibernate. dpHibernate works with BlazeDS and Hibernate so we’ll try to see if we can integrate dpHibernate (or parts of it) with Flamingo in order to make lazy loading available for our projects. This would be really cool because JBoss Seam does all the wiring and session handling that one needs to do if using directly Hiberbate. I was lucky enough to go see the session on DataBinding because it explained a lot of the Flex internals and it also touched on what made dpHibernate possible. I loved this session the most and I find it really useful. If you’d like to know exactly how binding works I highly recommend taking a look at Michael’s presentation.
This being said it’s time to go back to work and stop dreaming about cool projects… at least for a few days 
Oh, and thanks to Tom and John for making all this possible.
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