I am in the early stages of a complete rebuild of an existing business web app. There are two interfaces to the app, an internal one for staff and the external one for clients. We are beginning with the internal one and we have developed an extensive and detailed Functional Specification and DB Schema (for MySQL). We have actually also begun coding a bit in PHP using the CakePHP MVC framework (http://cakephp.org/).
I had examined Flex some six months ago and at that time, it didn't quite appear production-ready. We have now decided that it bears re-evaluation. Aside from a 'slick' interface, the main attraction for me of Flex is real-time data availability in the browser. If a staff member is looking at data in his browser and that data changes on the server, it is vital that the data be updated in his browser in real time. As far as I understand, this is a feature of Flex. The app in question needs to support an average 200 internal users (that's this year's estimate) all logged on and actively using the system with estimated average of 2000 visits a day from clients, including spikes of up to 2000 clients simultaneously logged in. My questions for now are: Is there evidence to indicate that Flex can handle this? Are there any comparable Flex apps out there? Is there any other information or advice anyone can provide? My programming team knows PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript/XML. Some know Flash, but some don't. I haven't looked into the finer details of Flex, but it appears that there is a significant learning curve. If anyone can comment on that, I would also be very interested to hear. Thank you, Hershel Robinson -- Web Site Construction by Gallery Robinson http://galleryrobinson.com/ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
