Data-Centric Development in Flash Builder 4 Article for Adobe Edge

I had the pleasure of contributing yet again to the Adobe Edge newsletter's latest issue. The article is titled "Data-centric development in Adobe Flash Builder 4" and ostensibly covers the new wizards built into Flash Builder 4 for integrating services in ColdFusion, PHP, Java and http/web services. However, the article also dives into the basics of ORM (Hibernate) integration in ColdFusion 9 as well as some of the default wizards that come with ColdFusion Builder for generating a server-side model using ORM. While the finished product of all of these wizards isn't necessarily a "ready-for-production" app, they do get you a long way towards a finished product with amazingly little work.

As both Flash Builder 4 and ColdFusion Builder near a final release, I expect the process only to become easier and smoother. This brings up an interesting aside about this article and the trouble writing about beta software. I originally wrote the first draft of this piece many months ago and for a variety of reasons it wasn't published until now. However, so much changed in the beta releases at MAX that I ended up having to revisit nearly every aspect of the article and revise it. The good thing was, though, that it was for the better in every sense.

So, go read the article, and please share what you think via comments.