Author here. I thought that too at first. It's actually straightforward though. I now have a video transcoding workflow that works well. It's not SWF that's th

Author here. I thought that too at first. It's actually straightforward though. I now have a video transcoding workflow that works well. It's not SWF that's the problem. It's actually really straightforward to use. AOP is not required, annotations are not required and those design patterns are not required. It's just the really messed up documentation that makes you think this. Check the bottom of the above article. You just take the C# sample and copy and paste it onto Java. Change the syntax to Java. It gets a bit more verbose but is still trivial to grok.