I have a continuous debate with myself about what to accomplish with
server code and what to accomplish internally with FLEX. My
decisions currently are mostly based on my skill level in each
language and which language makes the process the easiest. However, I
am wondering if there are better reasons to make these decisions.
For example, if I am going to gather some XML data...should I?
1) Load the XML directly into Flex (URLRequest) and then convert the
XML to objects in Flex.
2) Load the XML in PHP and then convert to PHP objects and send to
Flex (AMFPHP).
For some reason, I lean towards doing all parsing and object
translation on the server and only sending objects back and forth to
Flex, however, I don't know if this is because of my experience with
Flash RIA's that use to often get stuck in timeout loops. On the
other hand, I have a friend who always says "anything you can do on
the client, do on the client..." Conceptually, I understand this,
but in real life I don't know how this plays out. My thinking is
usually that the flash player is more limited that the server.
Anyone have any thought about this? I would say my apps generally
fall in the middle of the spectrum. They don't deal with millions of
records or millions of users, but they also are not small single user
widgets.
Thanks for your insight.
- Kevin
