It's nice to have options, however, I am still continually confused by which direction to go in terms of Data Services when designing my applications. I have been an AMFPHP user for the past couple years and have found it very useful and effective for what I need (the newest beta looks great!). HOWEVER, the data sync & messaging possibilities with FDS are something that I could really use in some of my current project so I am very tempted to move in that direction...once I have gotten a better hold on Flex & have the time to learn Java. WebOrb PHP looks promising as well since it ultimately plans to offer FDS type features. Keeping that in mind, here are my questions:
1) Regardless of which technology I am going to use, should I always set up my projects using Flex Data Services so that I have the option to build that into the application down the road? If so, how to I configure the Data Service Location wizard? (I notice that the WebOrb set up has you start every new project using Flex Data Service, but I don't think that is necessary with AMFPHP.) 2) How hard is it to add Flex Data Service to a project down the road? I am developing my app using cairngorm so I am hoping this will allow me to make these type of changes easier, however, I really have no clue. My plan is too stick with AMFPHP for the time being, however, I just want to make sure I am not headed down a path that will be hard to change in the future should I want to integrate FDS. Thanks for the advice. Once I get this figured out I will happily blog my progress to help answer these question for others. Thoroughly confused... - Kevin
