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

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CHAPTER 7
Using Flash Remoting for Java
This chapter describes how to use Macromedia Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004
ActionScript 2.0 with services running in Java application servers.
You can use Flash Remoting from ActionScript in a Flash application to call public methods on
Java objects running in Java application servers. Flash Remoting supports the following types of
Java objects:
• JavaBeans (stateful)
• Java classes (stateless)
• Enterprise JavaBeans (stateless session, stateful session, and entity beans)
• Java servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs)
• Java Management Extensions (JMX) MBeans; available in Macromedia JRun 4 only
Macromedia JRun 4 also lets you call functions on server-side ActionScript, which can in turn call
methods on server-side Java objects.
This chapter has the following sections:
• “About Flash Remoting for Java” on page 120
• “Calling Java classes or JavaBeans from ActionScript” on page 121
• “Calling Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) from Flash” on page 128
• “Calling servlets and JSPs from Flash” on page 132
• “Calling JMX MBeans from Flash (JRun only)” on page 134
• “Calling server-side ActionScript from Flash (JRun only)” on page 135
• “Handling function results in ActionScript” on page 137
• “Using Flash Remoting with JRun security” on page 139
• “Passing XML objects between Flash and Java” on page 140
• “Viewing Flash Remoting log entries” on page 141