[gavinjoyce]

> It seems that Ember Data is in a new round of development with alpha status

Ember Data isn't a requirement of Ember by any means. You can happily use these instead:

* jQuery.ajax

* https://github.com/ebryn/ember-model

* http://epf.io/

* https://github.com/zendesk/ember-resource

[shawndumas]

and RESTLess

https://github.com/endlessinc/ember-restless

[jonnii]

And Emu:

* https://github.com/charlieridley/emu/