Author here. I thought that too at first. It&#x27;s actually straightforward though. I now have a video transcoding workflow that works well.<p>It&#x27;s not SWF that&#x27;s the problem. It&#x27;s actually really straightforward to use. AOP is not required, annotations are not required and those design patterns are not required. It&#x27;s just the really messed up documentation that makes you think this.<p>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.