LiveCycle Data Services ES abstracts the complexity required to create server push–based applications and supports a rich set of features to create real-time and near real-time solutions.
j2flex :: "A persistence framework for Flex applications ... With j2flex you can directly read data from and save data your database without too much worrying about how this works - and without writing server side code. It just works. Sounds nice? Well, it really is. :-)"