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
24 Chapter 1: Getting Started
For more information on using Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 features, see
Chapter 2, “Using Flash Remoting ActionScript,” on page 29 and Flash Remoting ActionScript
Dictionary Help. For a simple example of a Flash Remoting application, see “Building a Hello
World application with Flash Remoting” on page 18. For an example of how to use the
RemotingConnector component in your application, see “Using the RemotingConnector in the
CustomerInfoExampleCon application” on page 57.
Migrating the DataGrid application to Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004
ActionScript 2.0
This section presents two versions of the Remote DataGrid application to illustrate the minimum
number of changes that you must make to an existing Flash Remoting application to run it under
Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0.
When migrating your existing Flash Remoting applications to the Flash Remoting for Flash MX
2004 ActionScript 2.0 API, follow these precautions:
• Use the Flash MX 2004 UI Components with the new Remoting API. Do not use Flash MX
components.
• Make sure your code is consistent in the use of uppercase and lowercase characters.
ActionScript 2.0 is case sensitive.
The DataGrid example uses Flash Remoting with a JavaBean. It simply populates a Flash
DataGrid with dynamic data, listing customers who belong to a selected category.
You can find the Remote DataGrid application in the following folder:
/Program Files/Macromedia/Flash MX 2004/en/First Run/RemotingSamples
See the Readme.htm file in this folder for information on how to set up and use this sample
application.
Example: migrating the DataGrid application
The following steps are the required steps to migrate the Remote DataGrid application from a
previous release (shown as Old API code below) to Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004
ActionScript 2.0 (shown as New API code below).
1.
Replace all existing Flash MX UI components with Flash MX 2004 UI components, such as
DataGrid, ComboBox, TextInput, and TextArea. For information on Flash MX 2004 UI
components, see Flash MX 2004 Help.
2.
From the Window menu, select Other Panels > Common Libraries > Remoting and click it.
From the Library panel that opens, drag the RemotingClasses and the RemotingDebugClasses
libraries to the Stage.