September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 43m
English
Content preview from Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide
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Installing Flash Remoting
Flash Remoting is built into ColdFusion MX (and later) and JRun 4, making these two application servers attractive to begin working with Flash Remoting. ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) has the added bonus of being relatively easy to learn. Flash Remoting is also available from Macromedia as an add-on for .NET and J2EE servers. Table 2-1 shows the languages that you can use to create server-side Flash Remoting services in each type of installation.
Table 2-1. Flash Remoting official language support
|
Flash Remoting installation |
Languages |
|
ColdFusion MX or later |
CFMLServer-Side ActionScriptJavaCFScript |
|
JRun 4 |
JavaServer-Side ActionScript |
|
J2EE |
Java |
|
ASP.NET |
VBC#JScript .NetC++Any other ASP.NET language |
Table 2-2 lists the open source projects underway that support Flash Remoting using various languages.
Table 2-2. Open source Flash Remoting language support
|
Project name |
Language |
URL |
|
AMFPHP |
PHP | |
|
FLAP |
Perl | |
|
OpenAMF |
Java |
The following sections detail the installation and configuration of Flash Remoting in the server environments that are supported.
ColdFusion MX
ColdFusion MX and later run on a J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) platform. Therefore, you can write simple programs using CFML and the resulting application is compiled into a Java servlet.
Admittedly, the variants of ColdFusion can get confusing. There are three basic versions. Free 30-day trial versions ...
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