Professional BlazeDS: Creating Rich Internet Applications with Flex® and Java®

Chapter 10. Making BlazeDS Applications Scalable

For many enterprise Flex applications, it's important that the applications scale as the number of its users and volume of data interchange increase. This chapter explains the following factors that contribute positively to better scalability:

• Clustering

• Data compression

• Data format optimization

• Robust connection

• Service orientation

• Caching

• Resource Pooling

• Workload distribution

Let's start with clustering.