It is not even theoretically possible to determine the "best" of anything.
You must look at the project, the requirements, both business and technical, the proposed environment, everything. All that said, if there are no budget or technical constraints to consider (working for God, maybe?), there are some popular, powerful combinations out there. For long term enterprise level solutions look into LCDS. Paging, push, messaging, a bunch of stuff I have not needed yet. Big-time functionality, big-time cost. Many people swear by Java and Remote Object, because of the ability to pass strongly typed objects around. It is also very fast, probably the fastest protocol. (But transmission speed is rarely the bottleneck) But there are third party programs that permit this with other back-end platforms like .net. (e.g. webOrb). Stay clear on what tier does what. HttpService, WebService, RemoteObject, sockets, etc do not communicate with databases. They are protocols for communicating with a back-endServer platform. Code on that platform communicates with the database. And which database? (rhetorical question) End to end design of a large project needs major commitment from many people, and there will be compormises on all sides. The business side almost always wins, by the way. We, on this list, have yet to come up with a consensus on *anything*, so good luck with that. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sceneshift Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 6:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Best language for remoting Hey guys, When building larger applications with bigger database interactions, which is considered the best language to develop the back-end environment in? I have been using PHP in most of my projects, but using AMFPHP to pass objects just seems really clunky... It seems as though Adobe are pushing ColdFusion, but I was wondering what the general consensus is on which methods (webservices, remoting) and languages are considered to be the best for communicating with databases. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Best-language-for-remoting-tp20905438p20905438.htm l <http://www.nabble.com/Best-language-for-remoting-tp20905438p20905438.ht ml> Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
