I'm looking for any information on why FDS is better than HTTPService or WebService. Or better phrased, WHEN would one prefer FDS over the other two for reasons other than publish/subscription?
I'm working on determining the best way to go with an architecture. I can tie Flex applications to Java, .NET or PHP API's for our back-end systems, but I'm wondering whether to go with a home-grown approach/WebORB vs. FDS? Does serving Flex apps from the FDS server reduce bandwidth or make for more efficient delivery? Is polling really terribly detrimental compared to data pushing? Is FDS amazingly faster, better, stronger than going with a free option. How much can an FDS server take before we need to build out the architecture? Basically I need to have a good list of WHY we should use Flex Data Services before I start dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars on the architecture. thanks, /j
