Pimento Integrates JPA and Hibernate with Flex

Pimento Data Services integrates JPA/Hibernate with Flex/Flash. The first release candidate is available for download at http://www.spicefactory.org/pimento/download.php.

As per the announcement by Jens Halm (Spicefactory) on osflash.org, Pimento Data Services offers management for persistent entities for Flex and Flash Clients with the following features:

• Automatic import of JPA/Hibernate configuration

• AS3 EntityManager remote service based on Cinnamon and the binary AMF3 protocol

• Managed AS3 entities and client-side cache

• Guarantee that there is always only one instance representing a particular entity

• Sending only change sets on merge operations

• Managed primary key values when persisting new entities

• Support for inheritance, managed and optionally lazy associations and collections

• Perform JPAQL and Named Queries from the Client

• Server-side Interceptor Architecture (allows to observe all CRUD operations initiated from the client)

• Support for Integration Tests written in AS3, with automatic database population