Update to Actionscript SimpleDB Library for Adobe AIR

I’ve finally had a little time to update the opensource Actionscript library for SimpleDB I wrote some time back. It now has support for the SQL syntax query method available in Amazon.com’s SimpleDB. There’s also a bug fix for a defect in the library in which a query with multiple ‘!=’ would generate an incorrect signature.

Although I think it’s great that Amazon has added support for SQL syntax in queries, they’ve announced that the previous query method will be deprecated. This is a real bummer because everybody who has created applications using the original query method now has to go back and retrofit their code so support the SQL syntax method. Granted we have 15 months to do it but for those of us who have done work for clients we now have to go back rewrite a lot of code which not only takes time that often can’t be billed for, it leaves open the possibility of introducing bug in what might already be stable code. If Amazon decided not to enhance the original query method but leave it in place I think that would be a much better decision.

The SimpleDB Actionscript library can be downloaded here.
There is a tutorial illustrating the SimpleDB Actionscript library usage here.

***UPDATE: The latest source code for this SimpleDB Actionscript library can now be accessed via google code.