About Connecting To External Data Sources - MACROMEDIA FLASH MEDIA SERVER 2-DEVELOPING MEDIA Develop Manual

About connecting to external data
sources
In addition to the communication models that streams and shared objects provide, Flash
Media Server can also interact with external data sources such as web services and relational
databases, or even other Flash Media Server applications. For example, you might write
server-side ActionScript to connect to a web service (use the WebService class) or ColdFusion
application to retrieve a list of names and phone numbers. The results of the query can then
be placed into a shared object. For more information about web services, see "About Flash
Media Server classes" on page 37.
Flash Media Application Server
Server
Web Server
Database
LDAP or other directory
End user End user End user
Flash Media Server interacts with external data sources.
Macromedia Flash Remoting is a gateway that connects your media application to J2EE
application servers and Microsoft Windows .NET servers. You can connect to Flash Remoting
from a client-side or server-side script. Flash Remoting relies on its own ActionScript library,
called NetServices, to link Macromedia Flash applications to a server-side gateway. The
NetServices API is described in Using Flash Remoting, available as a PDF on the Macromedia
website. For more information about using Flash Media Server with Flash Remoting, see the
Macromedia Flash Media Server Developer Center.
26 Flash Media Server Architecture