5 Passing Data with AMF
This chapter shows you how to pass data to and from Flex and Rails using a slightly different method than XML: Adobe’s binary AMF protocol with the RubyAMF Rails plug-in.
What Is AMF?
AMF stands for Action Message Format. This standard format is for encoding data to use in ActionScript. Macromedia created AMF as a way to make connecting a Flash interface with a “back-end” service a lot easier. As long as the service understands how to encode and decode AMF messages, applications written in ActionScript can communicate with the service as if it were a part of the running program, at least as far as the type of the objects is concerned.
This concept enables very powerful Remote Procedure Call (RPC) or ...
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