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Beside Java ... FlexPosted by ahashim on June 10, 2008 at 1:42 PM PDT
Few months ago I did my Hello World Flex, I used Adobe Flex Builder and founded it interesting to produce RIA. After than I tried a simple application for file download and discovered some features in Flex. Now, I came with a new project and decided to use Flex to do the job. What is my project? It is a small and smart product catalog with search facilities and customer reviews. Why I decided to make this site with Flex? Java is not suitable because of the hosting issue, finally I want to upload my application in my cheap host which supports PHP only. Why not PHP? because I plan add this small project to a current projects, some of them developed with PHP and other with ASP. I thought about Flex to make it easy to plug to any website The first problem I got is the DB connectivity, there is a way to connect to DB through PHP code or Java, but I didn't like the idea; it will be the same problem again. I asked one of my friends, he is a Flex fan and he told me about a new project which add the feature of DB connection from Flex. The Action Script SQL it is a very new project and tried it yesterday .. it works well as early beta version. »
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Submitted by gkbrown on Wed, 2008-06-11 13:31.
Have you looked into REST at all? REST web services map almost one-to-one to SQL queries. See the "Web Queries" section at the bottom of this page:
https://pivot.dev.java.net/nonav/tutorials/introduction.html.
Submitted by ahashim on Wed, 2008-06-11 10:52.
Ù‹Well, let's say "Beside Java" ... I will correct it :-)
I don't like to use Web services because it will effect the performance .. all backend stuff I want to do is SQL queries; so I don't feel that it fits Webservices.
Submitted by aberrant on Wed, 2008-06-11 06:54.
Well under your requirements and client side display technology would be a good fit. This includes applets and even GWT. Nothing about these technologies puts any platform requirements on the implementation of the back end. With Java/applets you could connect right to a DB but you probably don't want to do that. Web services would be a better choice for communication anyway. Any particular reason you decided to declare Flex .. "Beyond Java"?
Submitted by gkbrown on Wed, 2008-06-11 07:02.
As a Java developer, you may be interested in using Pivot to build your application:
https://pivot.dev.java.net/
As for connecting to the back-end - as the previous poster suggested, web services are probably the way to go. If your data is largely SQL-based, a REST service would probably be the easiest to set up.
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