I am trying to build a Hibernate enabled app (with Flex Data Services) but I am wondering how do deal with certain requirements of my app.
For example, I employ a root object table which contains all ids (and some admin vars) for every table in my app. Every data table has a one-to-one relationship with this root table and thus every insert includes a transactional update of both the data table & the root object table. Is this something that can be done easily with FDS & Hibernate while still be able to use the simple 'commit' command on the client side? My other questions is how I can check certain user roles before performing database operations? For example, if the client tries to do a DataServices "commit" to the database and that logged in user does not have the proper user role to do that operation, the request will be rejected at the server. I love how simple the DataServices functions are, but does that mean that it is hard to add functionality to these low level operations? I currently am "successfully" using PHP to manage my database on the server (using AMFPHP). The main reason I would like to switch to Java/Hibernate is to take advantage of data pushing which could be very useful for my use case. To my knowledge there is not a way to do this with PHP. I hate to switch everything over if I don't have to, but...for what I gain it might be worth it. Thanks for the the help. There is very little documentation that I can find on customizing DataServices/Hibernate's integration with Flex... - Kevin
