September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 43m
English
Content preview from Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide
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Why Use Flash Remoting?
One of the common questions about Flash is whether you can access web services using the Flash client only. Although Flash Player 6 requires Flash Remoting to access web services, Flash Player 7 has built-in SOAP support. However, the basic Flash 2004 authoring tool does not include the SOAP-based components that are standard in Flash Pro. Therefore, you must use Flash Pro (instead of Flash 2004) if you intend to use the built-in SOAP features of the Flash Player 7. As of this writing, it isn’t clear how Macromedia will prevent developers from extending Flash 2004 to support the SOAP enhancements available in Flash Pro. Licensing restrictions and encrypted libraries have been raised as possibilities.
Table 10-1 summarizes the compatibility issues.
Table 10-1. Flash Remoting and SOAP-based web services support
|
Server platform |
Flash Player |
Flash Remoting via AMF support |
SOAP-based web service support |
|
ColdFusion MX 6.0 or later |
Version 6.0.65 or later |
Built into ColdFusion Server |
Built into ColdFusion Server |
|
JRun 4 or later |
Version 6.0.65 or later |
Built into JRun |
Built into JRun |
|
J2EE |
Version 6.0.65 or later |
Requires Flash Remoting for J2EE, or OpenAMF |
Requires Flash Remoting for J2EE, or OpenAMF |
|
J2EE |
Version 7 |
Requires Flash Remoting for J2EE, or OpenAMF |
Built into Flash Player 7 but requires Flash Pro for authoring |
|
.NET |
Version 6.0.65 or later |
Requires Flash Remoting for .NET |
Requires Flash Remoting for .NET |
|
.NET |
Version 7 |
Requires ... |
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