[flexcoders] project set up: FDS ?? AMFPHP ?? WebOrb ??
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
[flexcoders] project set up: FDS ?? AMFPHP ?? WebOrb ??
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
