Chapter 1: Getting Started; About Flash Remoting - MACROMEDIA FLASH REMOTING MX-USING FLASH REMOTING FOR FLASH MX 2004 ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 Use Manual

Macromedia Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 is an application server
gateway that provides a network communications channel between Flash applications and remote
services. In this chapter, you learn the basics of Flash Remoting, including the Flash Remoting
architecture and how to build a Hello World Flash Remoting application. If you already use Flash
Remoting, this chapter explains the requirements to migrate an existing application to Flash
Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0.
This section contains the following sections:
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"About Flash Remoting" on page 13
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"Using Flash Remoting" on page 17
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"Building Flash applications with Flash Remoting" on page 16
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"Migrating existing applications to Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0"
on page 22

About Flash Remoting

Macromedia Flash Remoting is an application server gateway that provides a network
communications channel between Flash applications and remote services. Remote services consist
of application server technologies, such as JavaBeans, a Macromedia ColdFusion component or
page, an ASP.NET page, or a web service. Service functions represent a reference to a specific
remote service from ActionScript in a Flash application.
When compared to other techniques for connecting Flash applications to external data providers,
such as HTTP functions like
Flash Remoting provides the following advantages:
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Ease of use
service code, such as Java, CFML, and C#, to ActionScript and back again. Also, Flash
Remoting automatically performs logging, debugging, and security integration.
•
Performance
services using the Action Message Format (AMF is a binary format modeled on the Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP) format). Using AMF, Flash Remoting encodes data types as
they travel between the Flash application and the remote service over HTTP.
and
getURL
Flash Remoting offers automatic data type conversion from native remote
Flash Remoting serializes messages between Flash applications and remote
and XML functions like
loadVariables
CHAPTER 1
Getting Started
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