I have developed a nice little application which uses BlazeDS to exchange
information with the database via Java. I can serve up this data via a flex
with charts displaying the data. However, our customers want the application
to also have the option to run in an automated mode. They want it to run for a
set period of time (saving png snapshots of the charts every so often) and then
die. I tried launching the app in a browser on the server but this seems like
a poor approach because I'll have all of these browser instances running and I
really don't know how to close them when the report is no longer needed. I
just wondered if anyone has any ideas about generating these charts in this
type of automated fashion. Thanks!