Is there a Flex equivalent of GWT-RPC?

Question

Right now a lot of my applications use GWT-RPC for retrieving POJO's from a GWT RemoteService which in turn calls a Web Service (SOAP) to get the data. I am evaluating Flex and didn't really see anything truly analogous to this simple architecture. Anything I may have missed?

Answer 1

AMF is Adobe's compact binary message format for use in Flash / Flex applications. BlazeDS is the open source reference implementation for Java, using essentially nothing more than a simple "message broker" servlet to handle requests. This is similar to how services are exposed in GWT, although Blaze uses a single servlet, not multiple as in GWT.

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS/

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/amf/amf3_spec_121207.pdf

Answer 2

BlazeDS, particularly with Spring Integration.