BlazeDS service introspection/code gen in Flash Builder

The data-centric development features in Flash Builder support introspection of BlazeDS/LiveCycle Data Services destinations. You can use a wizard to introspect a remoting or web service destination and generate client-side proxy objects for working with the destination. For more information on using these features, see Building model-driven applications in the developer guide for LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta 1.
Note: To use these features, you must have Flash Builder 4 Beta 1 and BlazeDS 4 Beta 1.

Hi,
Thanks for your feedback!
This feature has been going through a lot of changes with the BlazeDS and Flash Builder builds.
We request you to pick up the BETA2 build of Flash Builder and BlazeDS 4.0.0.10654, hopefully you should see things working fine.
Kindly let us know if you still encounter problems.
Thanks,
Balaji
http://balajisridhar.wordpress.com

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