Thanks FreeFlexAcademic.

Since posting this message I have discoverered BlazeDS and have installed and
configured it. What I would really like to know more about is the best way to
exchange data between a pure Flex frontend and an Oracle database. There
appears to be little offical information on how this can be done. I have found
some blog posts on integrating BlazeDS with OC4J on the Oracle Application
Server as an option to deliever this, but it still appears to be quite
complicated. Having come from a simple Oracle Forms background the move
towards true RIA applications at present is a strong (and frustrating at times)
learning curve.

Any thoughts on the Oracle database solution?

Regards,
Leigh.

These are the links that I have found:

http://biemond.blogspot.com/2008/03/...oracle-as.html

http://biemond.blogspot.com/2008/08/...h-blazeds.html


http://corlan.org/2008/06/05/creatin...in-flex-builde
r-wo-lcdsblazeds/

I am yet to work through the examples in the first two links. I'm still not
100% sure how the database connection is established between OC4J / BlazeDS and
the database, in both examples there is no talk about db authentication or TNS
setup so not sure how its done, I presume this is not covered as the examples
are only covering the client <-> application server tier interface and not the
application server tier <-> database tier interface (??). Then again I might
have this all wrong.