Wish To Use Flex 2 For My University Project

Dear All
I am a mature student studying a Computer Science Degree in
the UK .
For my final year project, I am creating a Stock Market
Simulation with a Database back end (e.g. SQLite ?) and some kind
of front end, both to be run a a stand-alone machine.
I have a 28 weeks to design, build and run it for my
supervisors. I would like to push myself academically by building
the software using Flex 2, for the GUI and even to carry out any
calculations or processing needed for the simulation to operate
correctly.
My questions are
1) Is it possible to create the simulation as I can find no
definitive way to connect Flex 2 directly to a database back end in
a similar way to ADO.net?
2) If it is possible which book do you recommend to get the
best and quickest results out of Flex 2?
Thanks In Advance
Steven

You are correct, Flex does not natively connect to any
database. Further, security restrictions on both the browser and
the Flash Player prevent access to *any* client resources, such as
the filesystem.
So if you use standard Flex, you will need some back-end web
technology. This can be almost any platform/language you choose.
Now, the newest, coolest thing in the Adobe world is AIR. AIR
applications can be written using Flex, Flash, HTML and javascript,
and have full access to client asseets. AIR is essentially an
internet delivered desktop application.
AIR has SQLLite database built-in.
AIR is currently in public Beta. I do not know what will be
available as far as non-commercial or educational licensing when it
is realeased.
I don't have a book to recommend, but here is a partial list
of on-line resources:
Tracy
Flex 2.x Resources
Flex sites/blogs:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/
DEVNET - start here!
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/productinfo/faq/
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepage&productId=2
http://blogs.adobe.com/
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/
http://labs.adobe.com/
http://labs.adobe.com/community/
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm#loc=en_us&view=sn610&viewName=Adobe%20Exch ange&avm=1
http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/
Other:
http://www.searchcoders.com/flex/
http://www.flexination.info
http://flexibleexperiments.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/flex-20-primitive-explorer/
http://www.scalenine.com
http://www.flexcursion.com
http://www.theflexshow.com
http://www.JeffryHouser.com
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/
http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/
http://flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com/
http://dougmccune.com/blog/
http://www.cflex.net/
http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/
http://www.everythingflex.com
http://www.waldosmeets.com/
http://www.jessewarden.com/
http://www.cbetta.com/blog/
http://www.cynergytv.com/
http://www.flexdaddy.info/
http://www.richinternet.de/blog/
http://www.brightworks.com/technology/overview.html
http://www.crossdomainxml.org/
http://flexsearch.org/
http://labs.flexcoders.nl/
Flex style Explorer:
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html
Documentation:
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm
Lists:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=60
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcomponents/
Bugs/enhancement requests:
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

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