Using Flex 2 with/without FDS

I am presently designing a web architecture for a client, and
ideally I would like to employ a Flex2 UI on a Tomcat/Java web
server/server component framework (possibly Spring). I am trying to
get a good handle on the necessity of Flex Data Services (FDS) in
this architecture.
What am I really losing should I choose *not* to employ FDS,
and is rolling the entire server side with standard Java technology
fairly doable? Does anyone have any first-hand experience doing
this which they could share?
Given an expert-level server-side Java experience level, I
need to determine whether employing FDS is a necessity or not.
Thanks,
Brad

quote:
Originally posted by:
holmes_z06
only if you want to pay the licensing costs.
We don't use FDS on our project, we just export XML. Might
start using some SOAP in the future. There's no way we could
justify the cost of FDS.
-Jason
Jason,
Thanks for the reply. How have you found the effort required
to manage the XML transmitted by the Flex 2 app to the server-side?
Has this effort been minimal, or have you found this minor? For the
most part, unless I can identify something major that FDS provides
to an org already versed in doing enterprise-class (J2EE) server
development, I'm not quite seeing the need for FDS. I understand
the description of FDS, and the synching / JMS capabilities, but
I'm not sure that this can't be fairly easily managed with standard
Java server objects (servlets, EJBs, or Spring POJOs). I don't want
to get into discussing licensing, but there needs to be
justification for such, especially at a per CPU rate, which is a
common need for everyone.
I'd love to hear from anyone who has employed FDS, or is
familiar with an org who has, who can speak specifically to the
value add experienced through use of this product.
Brad

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