Database Accessor JAVA?

Question

Pardon my ignorance. I've been playing w/the new Flex 3
Beta.... I'm very happy w/the most recent improvements
One thing that I really think adobe underestimated was the
Database Accessor wizard..... I can't find any docs, tutorials, or
napkin drawings to tell me in more details how cool and great it
is......... perhaps is my lack of flex hardcore experience.... but
how do other people connect to MySQL from a Tomcat server without
using Remoting, or the LiveCycle thing? I mean, can Flex output JSP
code as well as wut the wizard outputs PHP? or is there any other
magical way of doing this {The "on-a-budget(free)"} way without
buying the liveCycle thing, or going Remoting?
I'm trying to migrate an old Flash mx 2004 app that uses
OPENAMF onto Flex, unfortunately buying the livecycle thing is out
of the question, and as a bonus......OPENAMF doesn't support AMF3,
and apparently no one has updated their site since Colombus
discovery.... Sooo, my only choices are some sort of open source
solution......it needs to be simple and fast.
I know about webservices, and xml, etc. ......but I was just
trying to minimize the transitions by not having to re-write all of
our Java classes.

Answer 1

Hi, have you seen our beta tutorial for the Data Wizard?
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions#Introductory_Data_Wizard s
You absolutely can use the wizard to connect to MySQL on a
Tomcat server without LCDS. Just select the "XML over HTTP" option
in the wizard. (The "LCDS" tutorial shows this -- it picks the LCDS
option but it also shows the place where you can select XML over
HTTP instead.) The wizard will generate a Java servlet. It doesn't
generate JSP code, but that's not really applicable here since it
can generate the underlying servlet directly.
So, this means you'll be using a different way of encoding
the data over the wire (XML instead of AMF/remoting as your old app
did), but the wizard generates code for handling the
encoding/decoding of your application and server data into XML, so
it shouldn't make much difference to your app.
Hope that helps,.
Tom