You could also use Adobe ColdFusion, which has native AMF support
built-in, as well as a gateway for interacting with Flex apps. Then you
have the power of a J2EE app server, the agility of RAD development with
ColdFusion and Flex, plus the scalability of ColdFusion, with it's
clustering support, etc.
Yes, the server license costs, but when you factor in the support, the
community information (which is extreme), and the time savings offered
by programming in CFML over Java (or something else), plus the bonus of
the native communication channels that Adobe has built into the two
products, it really is a major win-win scenario.
Steve "Cutter" Blades
Adobe Certified Professional
Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
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Jon Bradley wrote:
On Mar 26, 2008, at 8:34 PM, artur wrote:
the CMS webservice i want to build will be done in FLEX / AMF / MySQL.
and i want to make sure that it can scale and be redundant.
Ok.... but that doesn't have anything to do with Flex. Flex is just a
different application to build an SWF file. It is only the front-end
solution.
Flex SWF == Flash SWF, plus a whole bunch of code for handling the UI.
The Flex SDK is like using a framework (vegas, arp, etc.) for Flash, but
on crack.
If you're talking about your server solution scaling and being
redundant, you need to be way more concerned with other things. You'll
most likely need some type of J2EE server.
Your best bet is to find a content management system that utilizes
JSR-170 (Java Content Repository) and can use MySQL or PostgresSQL (or
even oracle) for serious scalability and capability to handle
clustering, etc.
Check Alfresco.com as a nice, forward looking solution for that (it's
open source and free, if you don't need support). You'll still need to
write the API on the server with Java to allow the AMF library
(GraniteDS or BlazeDS) to speak with the CMS services.Drupal or DSpace
might be additional options but I don't know how they scalability and
redundancy.
There is also an open source project that wasn't started too long ago:
Igenko The goal of this project is to act as a JSR-170 (with Apache
Jackrabbit) with data services (GraniteDS at the moment). the link is:
code.google.com/p/igenko
Either way, your issue is server-side, not Flex/Flash.
- jon
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