I am trying to run flex as an image generator on the server. Since my server is headless, the feedback I am getting is that it is bad practice to run flex in the browser for a background app.
Here's what the program does in a nutshell: The server launches my java app. It reads a list of report definitions from the data base. For each report, it spawns a thread. Each thread launches my Flex application in the browser. Flex draws the data in charts. Each time data is pushed to the flex application from the java server side, Flex calls a remote java method to save it's image to a file. This file sits in a directory where it can be viewed in a regular old html page. The problem is really the automated aspect. I want to have this chart generated every few minutes as a .png file. It works perfectly fine on my localhost machine, but the server deployment is so far not working. We have firefox installed on the server. Is there no way to launch it as a background process to draw these images? Should I turn this into an AIR app (I've never done anything with AIR up to this point) to make it run more easily in the background?
