Does the Spring-Flex 1.5 Sample work?

Question

The samples and documentation in question can be found here: http://static.springsource.org/spring-flex/docs/1.5.0.M1/

The reference doc ( here ) tells us to download the sample application:

Included in the project distribution is a collection of samples called the Spring BlazeDS Integration Test Drive. This samples project is set up to be built with Maven and then imported into Eclipse for running the application via WTP.

The samples in question, must either be spring-flex-testdrive-spring3.zip which is linked to in the document or spring-flex-testdrive-spring3.zip based on the notion that this is release 1.5.0.M1 (docs and samples).

After I configure maven as described with the proper environment variable:

MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

I then execute (per instruction) the command to install: mvn clean install from the extracted samples directory (in my case C:\spring-flex-testdrive ), I receive the following error:

C:\spring-flex-testdrive>mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR]   The project org.springframework.flex.samples:spring-flex-testdrive:1.5.0.M1 (C:\spring-flex-testdrive\pom.xml) has 1 error
[ERROR]     Non-resolvable parent POM: Failure to find org.springframework.flex:spring-flex-parent:pom:1.5.0.M1 in http://maven.springframework.org/external was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be
reattempted until the update interval of spring-external has elapsed or updates are forced and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM @ line 5, column 10 -> [Help 2]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException
[ERROR] [Help 2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/UnresolvableModelException
C:\spring-flex-testdrive>

I have managed to get a "Spring BlazeDS" application working (with Flex), but now I'm at the point where I need to implement security, and if the samples would compile and run correctly, it'd be a huge help. I am new to Maven, but any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance StackOverflow community!

Answer 1

Brian, please add the following snippet to the pom.xml in the root of the samples (from where you execute mvn clean install) and re-run Maven:

    <repository>
        <id>spring-milestone</id>
        <name>Spring Milestone Repository</name>
        <url>http://maven.springframework.org.s3.amazonaws.com/milestone</url>
    </repository>

Hope that helps.

Christian

Answer 2

I would recommend that if go with Parsley for Actionscript/Flex framework. It is more mature in may ways than Spring-Actionscript. Moreover it is a required library for much of Cairngorm 3. Good luck.

Answer 3

I get the same error. Spring Flex 1.5M2 will be out very soon. So maybe give it another try with that.