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Today my daily maven build was broken with wierd message:
[ERROR] Could not resolve <mx:AdvancedDataGrid> to a component implementation
This happened after adding  <mx:AdvancedDataGrid> component to project mxml file. In Flex Builder all compiled fine, but build with maven failed. After spending some time with google, i’ve found the root of a problem.  The problem is [...]

Sometimes you need to connect to internet from your java programs. It’s easy to do via URLConnection. But when you are behind the proxy server, your program doesn’t know how to deal with it. Configuration of proxy server is fairly easy. All you need to do is to setup following system properties:

System.setProperty("http.proxySet", "true");
System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "name_of_proxy_server");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "proxy_server_port_number");

Today Jeremy Grelle had announced that the first GA release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.
This project’s purpose is to make it easier to build Spring-powered Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex as the front-end client. It aims to achieve this purpose by [...]

If you want to have source files of your project dependencies in local repository, you need to execute following command:
mvn dependency:sources
If you are creating project for Eclipse and want source files to be included to the project, you can run this one:
mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources

If you’re using Eclipse and Flash/Flex Builder, you might want to have a look at the Flex Formatter Plug-in. It’s a great add-on that allows you to (auto-)format your ActionScript and MXML files, based on the templates you define.
More info: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexformatter/

This is first post on VariaMind blog. Left here for historical purposes:)