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 1
Getting Started
Macromedia Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 is an application server
gateway that provides a network communications channel between Flash applications and remote
services. In this chapter, you learn the basics of Flash Remoting, including the Flash Remoting
architecture and how to build a Hello World Flash Remoting application. If you already use Flash
Remoting, this chapter explains the requirements to migrate an existing application to Flash
Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0.
This section contains the following sections:
• “About Flash Remoting” on page 13
• “Using Flash Remoting” on page 17
• “Building Flash applications with Flash Remoting” on page 16
• “Migrating existing applications to Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0”
on page 22
About Flash Remoting
Macromedia Flash Remoting is an application server gateway that provides a network
communications channel between Flash applications and remote services. Remote services consist
of application server technologies, such as JavaBeans, a Macromedia ColdFusion component or
page, an ASP.NET page, or a web service. Service functions represent a reference to a specific
remote service from ActionScript in a Flash application.
When compared to other techniques for connecting Flash applications to external data providers,
such as HTTP functions like
getURL and loadVariables and XML functions like XMLSocket,
Flash Remoting provides the following advantages:
• Ease of use Flash Remoting offers automatic data type conversion from native remote
service code, such as Java, CFML, and C#, to ActionScript and back again. Also, Flash
Remoting automatically performs logging, debugging, and security integration.
• Performance Flash Remoting serializes messages between Flash applications and remote
services using the Action Message Format (AMF is a binary format modeled on the Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP) format). Using AMF, Flash Remoting encodes data types as
they travel between the Flash application and the remote service over HTTP.