Most people know that I’m working since a few months on a Flex / AIR project, and I’m really struggling with all the database operations that lies behind the whole application, I’ve been searching for a solution to compensate my “not that good” PHP programmer part without involving external sources. Today while browsing around I found this awesome library called assql (found at www.everythingflex.com)
With assql you are able to connect directly to a mysql database without any php / asp scripts running along with your Flex frontend, ok fine probably it’s not a best way of doing it. But I think this is one hell of a good start to speed up AIR/FLEX development in ease.
I’m going to rewrite the basic functionality of my project to include this library and see how it performs and most important if it really works as I hope it does.
I hope that people continue to develop it and that more developers come into the game to enhance this cool project, who know’s maybe Adobe will embed this project into Flex 4?!
By the way speaking about Flex 4, codename “Gumbo” you can preview the upcoming Flex version on http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4 what’s new about Flex 4?
Below Ely Greenfields video showing some of the design features of Flex 4:
Have fun watching and keep an eye on assql
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is posible for yhe web ??
if you mean if it’s possible to use assql for the web. yes it is!
Do you happen to know if this SWC can be used in a Flex (not AIR) application?
Alfred, I haven’t seen anything that wouldn’t make it work in a flex application, have a try.
how about security concerns?