>> Simply put, there is no roadmap in Apache Flex for AIR. I was part of >> an email thread last week about ANEs, and while I am not sure they >> belong in the Apache Flex, I do believe that as another email thread >> just started about making a website that would potentially attract >> folks to this technology, there was a mention of 3rd party >> plugins...If we look at http://extensionsforair.com/, that's a great >> resource that if we could link to, something like Manik's project >> would be a marvelous contribution. >> >> @Manik - would you potentially be interested in creating this as an >> ANE, and contributing it to that?
Note that database access for Flex does not have to be implemented as an ANE. I wrote a PostgreSQL driver using the raw Socket APIs in Flash: https://github.com/deafbybeheading/pegasus It's true that this is probably of limited usefulness outside of AIR, and so maybe ANEs are a simpler way to achieve generalized database access rather than trying to add a database access API to the Flex framework (à la JDBC), but I thought I'd throw this out there.
