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From Adobe’s product information page about back-end support for their front-end Flex product.

LiveCycle Data Services ES (previously called Flex Data Services) software provides a comprehensive set of data-enabling features for using data in Flex or Ajax based RIAs that revolutionize the user experience. A powerful data services architecture and programming model enable RIAs to synchronize data between client and server to produce optimal customer engagement experiences with less code, less risk, and faster time to market. LiveCycle Data Services ES also opens up powerful new services to rich applications including document and form server processing, workflow, and more. Start building applications today with free LiveCycle Data Services ES Express, a single-CPU production license.

Marketing hype has never been more eloquent. To top it off, this is an entirely 100% Java product, and it comes with three different installers (Windows, Solaris, Linux) with Mac conspicuously absent.

I installed the subset of it (Blaze DataServices) from the Windows package - worked fine. Four Jar files and one XML file. Bozos.