I just posted an interview with Granite Data Service founder Franck Wolff. You can check it out on InfoQ.com at: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/granite-data-services.
A few interesting items:
- I have used GDS a bit, but I didn’t realize that there Hibernate support allow for using lazying loading in the Flex clients. This sounds very powerful and I am excited to check it out.
- He had some interesting thoughts on the possible negative impacts RIA might have and, how GDS can help address them:
I think that with the new RIA developments we face the risk of going back fifteen years ago from an architectural point of view, when the client/server paradigm was dominant. This trend could bring us to stateful clients interacting with stateless servers (i.e. a simple database front-end). While this architecture may be possible and viable for small Flex applications, I think this is not the best choice for large applications.
Thanks Franck for the interview and for the significant open source contribution.
