Flex Data Services was rebranded as LiveCycle Data Services a while ago, but that was just a name change: http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/dataservices/
It's a Flex client library along with a server library that adds advanced functionality on top of and around rpc.swc (shipped with the Flex SDK) on the client and BlazeDS on the server. If your client just needs to display the results of complex computations that will be performed in Java at the server, running BlazeDS on the server and RemoteObject at the client is probably all you need to get started. Best, Seth From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nate Beck Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:18 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex of JavaFX? Flex Data Services aren't really around anymore. I would recommend Flex + BlazeDS, it's java based. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:45 AM, TCash21 <tanya_cashor...@dfci.harvard.edu> wrote: Hi all, I'm currently trying to push Adobe Flex at my company for complex network visualizations. The application will also need to run computationally intensive simulations (accessing backend java code) as well as some other distributed tasks. I know Java can store everything in memory and access it but is Flex just as able? Would it require Flex Data Services and what are the advantages? I'm easily sold on the UI-experience and aesthetic appeal of the front-end, I'm just unsure how it would handle massive computational efforts on the backend and display it all to the client quickly. We're trying to figure out the best way to go, will it be JavaFX? Flex Data Services? Flex and Java integrated? Elixir? Thank you all for any input, -Tanya -- Cheers, Nate ---------------------------------------- http://blog.natebeck.net
