I'm lucky enough, I think lucky :), to have ColdFusion as my middle tier. Connected to Oracle, MS SQL, and MySQL, Oracle 100% now but started with MySQL and MS SQL. Also have a friend who uses PHP fronting MySQL. RemoteObjects calling ColdFusion .CFCs totaly ROCK for database communication (interaction) in Flex. The learning curve has not been too bad, 4 months start learning to development testing with only one developer and no Java or ActionScript experience. Greg
----- Original Message ---- From: candysmate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:08:00 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex for database apps; compare to .net --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, Michael Pengi <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Thanks, I'll focus on 3.0, though being new to flex and with the docs for 3.0 > somewhat thin now, not sure what I'll be able to figure out. I hope adobe > provides some straightforward db oriented tutorials, web services play only > a minor role in most of my fellow developer's workload, db interaction is > where it's at. > > I'd appreciate anyone else's input on these subjects. > My current Flex development work is heavily MS SQL Server based. To help with this I run my Flex swf inside a wrapper. The user now has a desktop exe application. I use Janus (www.spaghettisort. com) for this and it works great. You can connect to MS Access, MS SQL and Oracle data. Check it out, it may be what you're looking for. best, Graham Nichols ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs