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Flex 1.5 support for ATG Dynamo 6.2, 6.3 and 7.0

Issue

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Macromedia has added support for Flex 1.5 running on ATG Dynamo 6.2, 6.3, and 7.0 with the hot fix provided below.

Solution

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The hot fix is delivered as a ZIP file containing all relevant files. The hot fix must be manually installed for each Flex server.

The installations instructions for the hot fix for Flex 1.5 are as follows:

1. Stop the Flex server(s).
2. Download flex15_hf105716.zip(441K).
3. Unzip the hot fix ZIP file to a temporary directory.
4. Create a /WEB-INF/flex/hotfixes directory.
5. Copy flex15_hf105716.jar from the temp directory to the hot fixes directory.
6. Copy flex-bootstrap.jar to /WEB-INF/lib, overwriting the previous version.
7. Copy commons-codec.jar and commons-httpclient.jar to WEB-INF/flex/jars.
8. Update the Flex.class.path in /WEB-INF/web.xml as follows:

    <context-param><param-name>flex.class.path</param-name><param-value>/WEB-INF/flex/hotfixes,/WEB-INF/flex/jars</param-value></context-param> 

9. If using the command line tools, like mxmlc, update the jvm.config file that's in the same directory asmxmlc so that the java.class.path property points to flex15_hf105716.jar.
10. (Optional) If you wish to remove jsse.jar, remove the jar from /WEB-INF/flex/jars. After removal, the lax-debug settings in flex-config.xml will no longer work but the rest of the proxysettings should work.
11. (Optional and needed only for ATG) If you wish to update the Flex samples.war:
    1. Unzip samples.war.
    2. Replace the files:
       WEB-INF/classes/samples/contacts/ContactManager.java,
       WEB-INF/classes/samples/contacts/ContactManager.class,
       WEB-INF/classes/samples/explorer/FormatSource.java,
       WEB-INF/classes/samples/contacts/FormatSource.class,
       explorer/formatsource.jsp
    3. You may then re-archive and redeploy samples.war.
12. Restart the Flex server(s).
13. In the flex.log file, you can verify the hot fix was correctly added to the flex.class.path by confirming that the Flex version number is: 87315.134646.hf105716

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