I also used, for a little project, a pure as3 socket-based MySql driver from an AIR application, called assql [1]
[1] http://code.google.com/p/assql/ 2012/4/11 Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakre...@gmail.com>: >>> 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.
