BlazeDS vs Granite DS vs WebORB vs LiveCycle DS for business applications on Flex and Java

Artem — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:11:15 +0000

Here is the table of features I managed to find:

Feature	BlazeDS	Granite DS	WebORB	LiveCycle DS
Data management Services
Client-Server synchronization	-	+	+	+
Conflict resolution	-	-	+	+
Data paging	-	+	+	+
SQL adapter	-	-	+	+
Hibernate adapter	-	+	+	+
Document Services
LiveCycle remoting	-	-	+	+
RIA-to-PDF conversion	-	-	+(plugin)	+
Enterprise-Class Flex application services
Data access/remoting	+	+	+	+
Proxy service	+	+	+	+
Automated testing support	-	-	+(through RIA AppPuncher –coming soon)	+
Software clustering	+	+	+	+
Web tier compiler	-	+	+	+
Flex code generation	-	+	+	-
Enterprise Integration
WSRP generation	-	-	-	+
Ajax data services	+	-	+	+
Flex-Ajax bridge	+	-	-	+
Runtime configuration	+	-	+	+
Open adapter architecture	+	-	-	+
JMS adapter	+	+	+	+
Server-side component framework integration	+	+	+	+
Stateful services (session scope for Java objects)	-	+	+	?
Singleton services (application scope for Java objects)	-	+	+	?
Server-to-client method invocation	-	-	+	?
ColdFusion integration	-	-	+	+
Service browser displaying POJOs, Spring beans, EJBs and a list of deployed JAR files	-	-	+	-
Offline Application Support
Offline data cache	-	-	+	+
Local message queuing	-	-	+	+
Real – Time Data
Publish and Subscribe messaging	+	-	+	+
Real -time data quality of service	-	+	+	+
RTMP tunneling	-	-	+	+
Frameworks build-in integration
Spring	-	+	+	-
EJB3	-	+	?	-

I used the following articles:

Artem's blog » BlazeDS