What do I use?

[rgflex]

I want to display several custom banners on several sites (more like widgets) I need to communicated with them. They will read info from a database, about 10 fields, if a field is updated in database it will need to update on banner, or the banner could check the database once a day to see if it needs to update anything.

What's the best way to do this? What's the best product for this? Flash? Flex? AS? Remoting? Something else?

THANKS!!!

[jsebrech]

Within the flash arena, either go with flash if you want more control over animation and visual layout, or with flex if you want speed of development. However, you really shouldn't use flash for this. Do it in plain html+js.

[rgflex]

Thanks for the response.

If I do it with js then the client side information is public. There are calculations in it, I would like to keep it more secure. That is why I thought flash might be better than js.

[Assertnfailure]

Flash isn't more secure than js. Users can decompile swf files. Of course, this makes it a bit more of a pain than opening up js...

If you want something secure, you have to keep it on the server side.

[jsebrech]

Besides, there are JS obfuscators out there. I agree though, everything that's sensitive must be done server-side (ajax is your friend).