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About Flex Data Services

You build on the functionality of Flex Software Development Kit (SDK) by adding Flex Data Services. Flex Data Services includes enterprise messaging support, and a greatly enhanced data services architecture. These features let you create and deploy enterprise-class applications that take full advantage of the rich presentation layer provided by Flex.

Flex Data Services executes on your Java application server or Java container to provide functionality in the following feature areas:

• Enhanced data services
  • Data sharing among multiple clients
  • Support for client-to-client data communication
  • Automated server data push
  • Authentication of client access to server resources
  • Data service logging
• Enhanced remote-procedure-call (RPC) functionality

This topic contains an overview of the features of Flex Data Services. For detailed information, see Accessing Server-Side Data in Flex 2 Developer's Guide.

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