purpose is to make it easier to build Spring-powered Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex as the front-end client
providing first-class support for using the open source Adobe BlazeDS project and its powerful remoting and messaging facilities in combination with the familiar Spring programming model
Java - Adobe BlazeDS, Adobe LiveCycle Data Services (formerly known as Flex Data Services), Exadel Flamingo, RED 5, Cinnamon, OpenAMF, Pimento, Granite, WebORB for Java
free and more feature rich alternative to BlazeDS, but also outranks LCDS’ out-of-the-box features when it comes to data management, streaming media and integrating with mobile devices and Cloud computing
developer tools like code generation, invocation test drive and interoperability with multiple IDEs and frameworks
supporting integration with mobile clients (Android, Windows Phone 7, RIM Playbook and soon iOS) and the Java service layer, which includes support for Java POJOs, EJBs, Spring Beans, Grails controllers, Hibernate Objects and XML Web Services
Red5 includes support for the latest multi-user API’s including NetConnection, NetStream and SharedObject’s while providing a powerful RTMP / Servlet implementation
support for the RTMP protocol, the application server has an embedded Tomcat Servlet container for JEE Web Applications
