[flexcoders] Re: Thick Java Client for LCDS - AIR is too restrictive on Desktop

2008-07-26 Thread Shailesh Mangal
yeah, I spend some time looking at it, its certainly not easy. Any other alternatives? I need to connect to assembler and get the data pushes to the java client and execute some stuff on the desktop. AIR would have been perfect if it was as powerful as Java on desktop. -Shailesh --- In

[flexcoders] Re: Thick Java Client for LCDS - AIR is too restrictive on Desktop

2008-07-26 Thread meteatamel
There's no easy way to get DataService type of functionality in Java but you can certainly do Flash remoting (flash.net.NetConnection) type of functionality in Java using BlazeDS's AMFConnection. It's a new mini-feature that is currently being tested but it's in BlazeDS source tree. So, you can

[flexcoders] Re: Thick Java Client for LCDS

2008-07-24 Thread meteatamel
By LCDS, you mean DataService in Java? I haven't heard anyone try implementing that in Java. I don't think it'll be that easy though because, first you need to implement all Channels (or at least one that you'll use in your application) in Java and that by itself is not trivial. You need to figure