But I wouldn't suggest that as it's very experimental.

As for AIR, you're absolutely right about it being a complete desktop
environment. 

Cheers,

!k

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:13 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Flex?

On Thursday 03 Apr 2008, Brian Kotek wrote:
> Flex is ONLY client-side. It must communicate with a server via AMF (Flash
> Remoting), web services, or via HTTP (typically to get XML data) to do
> anything like save data to a central database.

There is a pure-ActionScript connector for MySQL for Flex, allowing it to 
connect directly.
And AIR lets you run Flex code like an application.
So you could write server-side tools in it, though it has no way to listen
on 
a port.

-- 
Tom Chiverton
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