GITZO :: Flash configurator middleware

Content data adapter

GITZO’s Flash Configurator allow users to search products who better fits user needs.

Products data and features were stored into the internal CMS’s MySQL database, and would have been uncomfortable to access them thorugh complex query from a Flash application running in a user browser.

Furthermore, pictures used to illustrate products was stored in wrong size and density and it resulted to be troublesome to process them within a Flash object.

The middleware Plus realized talks with the configurator through HTTP POST (like a REST web service) and returns XML data used by the Flash configurator to show data to users.

For pictures, a dedicated servlet, using Java 2D Imaging API, receives the image URL, retrieves it from the protected storage of the CMS and returns the resized version to the configurator.