[flexcoders] Re: AS to Java Translation Problems

2006-10-10 Thread Geoffrey
As a follow-up, I was on track with my original thoughts. The error in the ActionScript code was registering CalendarVO to java.util.Calendar. It should have been java.util.GregorianCalendar. java.util.Calendar is an abstract class and doesn't have a public constructor. Would've been nice

[flexcoders] Re: AS to Java Translation Problems

2006-10-09 Thread Geoffrey
Could someone voice an opinion on this? Please. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Geoffrey gtb104@ wrote: ENV: Flex 1.5 served from WebSphere6.1 All of our Java objects used to use java.util.Date for date properties, but we had to convert them to java.util.Calendar. Since Flex 1.5 doesn't

[flexcoders] Re: AS to Java Translation Problems

2006-10-09 Thread Doug Lowder
Geoffrey, you may or may not find this to be helpful but I've found it much easier to deal with times as longs than as instances of various date classes (java.util.Date, java.sql.Date, java.util.Calendar, etc). The timelong can be easily retrieved with date.getTime() or

[flexcoders] Re: AS to Java Translation Problems

2006-10-09 Thread Geoffrey
Doug, Our java objects need to have dates set to type Calendar. So are you suggesting that my ActionScript value objects have a setter/getter? Something like: class com.beans.WorkGroupVO { public var workGroupID:String; public var startDate:Date; public var endDate:Date;; static var

[flexcoders] Re: AS to Java Translation Problems

2006-10-09 Thread Doug Lowder
It would be more like replacing the Date objects in your WorkGroupVO with vars of type Number, set to calendar.getTime().getTime() on the Java side. This may or may not be an option in your case, but it would completely avoid object conversion issues between Java and AS. --- In

[flexcoders] Re: AS to Java Translation Problems

2006-10-06 Thread Geoffrey
No ideas? Is this something no one has tried before? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ENV: Flex 1.5 served from WebSphere6.1 All of our Java objects used to use java.util.Date for date properties, but we had to convert them to java.util.Calendar. Since