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
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