Object auto-update - new feature in WebORB 2.1

Just finished an implementation of a very cool feature for WebORB 2.1 Beta2. The feature works as follows:

1. Your client application fetches an object (or an array) through a remote method invocation
2. When the object arrives into the client app, you register it with a client-side script we provide.
   
3. You change the data in the object's fields, add/change/remove array elements, etc. and then "commit" the changes to the server-side.
   
4. The client script sends the deltas to WebORB which in turn retrieves the same object reference that was originally sent to the client and applies the updates to the object.
5. Once the changes have been applied, WebORB invokes a function from your back-end application to inform it about the changes.

Currently this feature will be available only for Flex client applications working with WebORB.NET (the client-side script is AS3). We also plan to create an AS2 version of the client-side script, so any Flash Remoting application can take advantage of the feature.

WebORB 2.1 - Connecting Flex with .NET

We started a closed beta testing of WebORB 2.1 beta1. The version enables connectivity between Flex 2.0 applications and .NET objects and services on the server-side. The beta 1 release provides support for the "remoting" part of the Flex Data Services 2.0. Subsequent beta releases will offer support for the messaging and dataservice functionality. If you are interested in participating in the beta test, please contact us at "beta at themidnightcoders.com".