The idea will be to attach a Unix terminal or some script
with a Unix Socket. then the flex application can access the local
file system something like "Screen" in Unix/Linux or perhaps a
MySQL.sock file then with some API flex could generate more than
just web services applications can interact with the file system in
some kind of shell.
After see the progress on the Heroku guys check this out...
http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/2/19/rush_the_ruby_shell/Wouldn't be really really cool if a local rails application
cant talk to the local machine for IMAP & POP3 then connect to
a Flex application via some socket, potentially we could have a web
mail reader based on Flex. using some ruby program as API and
perhaps some socket as the man in the middle. This can be extended
to interactive shell a database manager for MySQL and could include
some OS statistics & monitoring.
Maybe Flex need help from an AIR application in the file
system to get that missing API !!!.
Best Regards Dino.
