September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 43m
English
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Remoting: More Than Just a Name
Flash Remoting is a technology that resides on the remote application server—hence the name. It acts as a gateway to the server and translates client calls from a Flash movie into calls that the server can understand. It is included with ColdFusion MX Server and JRun 4 and offered as an add-on for ASP.NET and J2EE-compatible servers, such as IBM WebSphere. Third-party developers have built versions for PHP and Perl as well.
Prior versions of Flash were able to communicate with a server in a limited fashion using name/value variable pairs or XML. Flash Remoting offers the following advantages over these methods:
A Flash movie, through the server-side Flash Remoting gateway, can call server-side methods directly, not merely pass values or files back and forth.
The client- and server-side XML or name/value parsing required for Flash 5 interaction is virtually eliminated with Flash Remoting, although it can still be used effectively in some situations.
Because the server-side Flash Remoting gateway can communicate directly with the Flash movie, complex objects, such as arrays, structures, and recordsets, can be transferred without serialization/deserialization.
Also, because the server contains functionality that can be accessed directly (such as calling a server-side method by name from within the Flash movie), the Flash code can be more concise. Recordsets can be loaded into Flash movies using a RecordSet object, making it easy to sort and page through results ...
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