Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® AIR™ Programming in 24 Hours

Hour 20 Leveraging Server-Side Features for AIR

In this hour, you’ll learn

    • Leveraging Remoting

    • Getting the most out of web services

    • Using HTTP communication

    • Taking advantage of messaging

Leveraging Remoting

In this hour, you will see how your AIR applications can communicate with an enterprise’s server-side infrastructure. You will learn about

• Remoting:The shortened name for remote object access service, it is available for ASP.NET, ColdFusion, J2EE, and PHP.

• Web services:Can be programmed with the Flex frameworks <mx:WebService/> tag.

• HTTP communication:Leverages the <mx:HTTPService/> tag.

• Messaging:Publish/subscribe messaging collaboration with BlazeDS.

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