Integrating via Data Services
Shashank Tiwari · Apress eBooks · 2010
So far, you know how to combine Flex and Java using HTTP and web services. The last chapter surveyed a bunch of alternative mechanisms to achieve this. Most of these mechanisms involve loosely coupled text-based data interchange. Most of them interact by pulling data. Only one of them, Hessian, transmits binary data. Only one, Hessian again (with additional infrastructure powered by the new Java IO), allows data push.