User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About Flash Remoting
- Getting Started
- Using Flash Remoting ActionScript
- Using the RemotingConnector component (Flash Professional only)
- Using Flash Remoting Data in ActionScript
- About Flash Remoting and data types
- Understanding Action Message Format
- Converting from ActionScript to application server data types
- Converting from application server data types to ActionScript
- ColdFusion to ActionScript data conversion issues
- About working with objects
- About working with RecordSet objects
- About working with XML
- The NetConnection Debugger
- Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion MX
- Using Flash Remoting for Java
- About Flash Remoting for Java
- Calling Java classes or JavaBeans from ActionScript
- Calling Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) from Flash
- Calling servlets and JSPs from Flash
- Calling JMX MBeans from Flash (JRun only)
- Calling server-side ActionScript from Flash (JRun only)
- Handling function results in ActionScript
- Using Flash Remoting with JRun security
- Passing XML objects between Flash and Java
- Viewing Flash Remoting log entries
- Using Flash Remoting for Microsoft .NET
- Flash Remoting for Microsoft .NET
- Calling ASP.NET pages from Flash
- Making an ASP.NET page available to Flash Remoting
- Getting a reference to an ASPX-based service in ActionScript
- Invoking ASPX pages in ActionScript
- Using the Flash Remoting custom server control in ASPX pages
- Using the Flash Remoting namespace in code-behind files
- Using ASP.NET state management with Flash Remoting
- Using ASP.NET exception handling
- Using ADO.NET objects with Flash Remoting
- Displaying a RecordSet object in Flash with ActionScript
- Calling web services from Flash
- Calling ASP.NET assemblies from Flash
- Viewing Flash Remoting log entries
- Using NetServices and Connection Classes
- Index
10 Introduction: About Flash Remoting
Use the following sources to help you understand and use the tools and technologies that Flash
Remoting encompasses.
• Flash MX 2004 Help is the comprehensive information source for all Flash MX 2004 features.
To open Flash MX 2004 Help in your browser, either select Help > Using Flash, or click the
Help button in any dialog box, or the question mark icon in inspectors, windows, and panels.
• The ActionScript Dictionary describes the syntax and use of ActionScript elements in
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004. To access the
ActionScript Dictionary in Flash MX 2004, select Help > ActionScript Dictionary from the
Help menu.
• ColdFusion MX documentation is carefully crafted to assist you in every facet of ColdFusion
use. To access the ColdFusion MX documentation, activate the ColdFusion MX Administrator
and click the Documentation link.
For information on other application servers, see the documentation for those products.
What’s new in Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004
ActionScript 2.0
Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 consists of the following two principal
features:
• The Remoting Connector component
The RemotingConnector component is a new component that allows you to work directly
with the new data binding features in Flash MX 2004 Professional. Simply drag the
RemotingConnector onto the Stage and use the Component inspector to set up schema and
bindings. In addition, the RemotingConnector component provides a simple API consistent
with other connectors found in Flash MX 2004 Professional.
For more information on using the Remoting Connector, see Chapter 2, “Using Flash
Remoting ActionScript,” on page 29.
• ActionScript 2.0 API
The Flash Remoting ActionScript API has been updated to comply with ActionScript 2.0. The
ActionScript 2.0 version of the API consists of the following significant features:
■ Enforcement of strict data typing, which requires you to declare the data types of variables
and prohibits you from assigning different types of data to them.
■ Enforcement of case sensitivity, which means that myvar and myVar are two different
variables, though they were considered the same variable with different spellings in
ActionScript 1.0.
■ A new Service class, which allows you to create a gateway connection and at the same time
obtain a reference to a service and its methods. It includes the
connection property, which
returns the connection and also allows you to set credentials for authorization on the remote
server.
Note: The NetServices class is still supported but has been deprecated in favor of the new
Service and Connection classes