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Embedded Database Coming in Apollo Public Beta

Posted on May 31, 2007

There has been a lot of talk about Google Gears off-line web application platform today. One of the important items being that Gears will embed a SQLite database for off-line data storage. The lack of real off-line data storage was one of my chief criticisms of the Apollo platform. Well, there is good news on this front. Within Ryan Stewart's Gears post he says the following:

The other cool thing about this announcement is the information that the Apollo team has been simultaneously working on an embedded database in Apollo. The embedded database will be a part of the public beta for Apollo that is coming soon.

I suppose if there is offline data storage then synching data on and off line should be entirely feasible too. Now that, in my opinion, would be the key to making really powerful, Flex-driven off-line applications.

Comments

I think data sync is where livecycle data services 2.5 comes in. There was also mention that in future versions of Apollo that there may be method syncing as well (queuing online method calls while offline).

Posted By akeem / Posted on 05/31/2007 at 12:49 PM