Flash Builder 4 Beta – Data Centric Development (DCD) Introduction
Posted by hneelu on June 1, 2009
Flash Builder 4 Beta 2 (Code name: Gumbo) is available at Adobe labs.
FB 4 comes with a new feature set DCD (Data Centric Development). This makes the entire workflow to connecting to data easy, be it databases (through PHP and CF), HTTP Service, PHP, CF, WSDL etc.
With only three wizards : Service Wizard, Configure Return Type and Bind to Data, the basic app is up and running.
I’ll take an example of connecting to a database.
I just want to fill in some data I get from the server to a datagrid.
Sound simple. With DCD workflow it is even simpler to achieve it.
Pre-requisites:
- Flash Builder 4 Beta
- Apache , PHP, mysql or just WAMP
Flowchart 1:
Flowchart 2:
More about the wizards here 
Also see http://srinivasannam.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/introduction_to_dcd/
diamondtearz said
Thanks for posting the diagram *walking to printer*. Any clues on getting parameters into the REST widget? It disables my parameters when I add a method. Just curious if you’d come across anything.
hneelu said
Use a post operation to enter the parameters.
You can select the method by changing GET to POST in the Method cell of the Operations datagrid in Http Service Wizard.