Flex Integration Overview

Overview

WebORB Presentation Server for .NET is a complete solution enabling development and runtime execution of Flex applications with the Microsoft .NET framework. The product offers a client/server integration infrastructure for Flex applications demanding non-intrusive, fast, reliable and customizable framework closing the gap between Flex and .NET. WebORB enables integration between Flex clients and .NET applications at three levels:

Remoting - provides remote procedure call (RPC) support, enabling Flex clients to invoke methods on deployed .NET objects. Flex clients can use the RemoteObject API/MXML to bind to and invoke methods of the remote .NET objects. WebORB's remoting engine automatically converts client-side objects to the corresponding types expected by the method signatures of the user class.
Data Management - a rich and extensible system designed to simplify data-tier integration between Flex and .NET. The system includes design-time editor, code generator and a runtime framework to enable developer create robust data-driven Flex applications. Code generator is capable of producing both ActionScript and .NET (C#/VB) code supporting all fundamental database operations (CRUD) for the database identified by developer. Additionally, the data management system supports features like client synchronization which allows dynamic push of data changes to all connected clients.
Real-time Messaging - provides a runtime environment for real-time message and rich media content delivery. Flex clients can request streaming audio/video, publish or record live video streams, use Remote SharedObject API as well as producer/consumer (pub/sub) API.