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Help With Choosing The Technology

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Hello,

I need help in choosing the appropriate technology for the application that I'm going to be creating.

The characteristics of the system that have been decided until now:

  • Standalone app built on either Flex/Flash/AIR
  • Restricted to using the system on a single computer, hence can be a tightly coupled system
  • The server component of the system needs to be closed source and robust, for which im thinking something like a Java backend,etc,etc.
  • In a completely new environment, all that i need to be able to do is install just the AIR application and not worry about installing extra stuff for the server support.

Thanks In Advance for anyone who can help me out with this.

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Because your system will be restricted to one machine at a time, I think you could use Flex/BlazeDS/Java.

I've heard BlazeDS "just works" even though it is open source.

If you don't want to go that route, you might try ColdFusion, which I've also heard is very good.

I've even heard straight PHP or Zend is a good choice as well.

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Greg Lafrance - Flex 2 and 3 ACE certified

www.ChikaraDev.com

Flex / AIR Development, Training, and Support Services

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Exactly, now can u tell me how i could use Flex BlazeDS and Java to create what i did??

if i did create this system, can i somehow embed the blazeDS+java component into the flex app??

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If you are saying you want the server component to be on the same machine as the Flex app, then your choices are severely limited due to the sandbox, unless of course you are using AIR, then you can just use the SQLite database.

But if there will be a sevrer component on another machine on the web, you could use BlazeDS, and like I said, its free and very robust.

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/download+blazeds+3

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Creating+a+BlazeDS+web+service+application+in+Flex+Builder

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Creating+a+BlazeDS+messaging+application+in+Flex+Builder

http://sebastien-arbogast.com/2008/04/10/flex-spring-and-blazeds-the-full-stack/

If this post answers your question or helps, please mark it as such.


Greg Lafrance - Flex 2 and 3 ACE certified

www.ChikaraDev.com

Flex / AIR Development, Training, and Support Services