David,

I just have one question. Will the flex 2 client side tools allow me
to connect to the old AMF servers. The docs *seem* to say no. If this
is not your intent and if this is wrong, I apologize for any confusion
I may have added to the situatuion.

Thanks
Hank

On 10/19/05, David Mendels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a misunderstanding.  Flex Enterprise Services includes the new
> AMF gateway but I am sure the folks building OpenAMF or RubyAMF or etc
> etc will at some point implement the new version.  We have nothing
> really against the open source projects.  We are adding a lot of
> functionality, performance, manageability to Flex Enterprise Services
> and hope that will be valuable to people.  But we aren't trying to
> "kill" anything.  The Open Source community may well compete with
> Macromedia in some areas, but much more important we want a rich
> ecosystem with a lot of tools that solve a lot of different needs from a
> lot of different people and companies to make the Flash Platform
> successful for more people. I hope instead of us focusing on "killing"
> open source, or the open source community focusing on "killing"
> Macromedia, both can look at how we all can add value to to the
> community and leverage and extend each others work.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> > Of hank williams
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:07 AM
> > To: Flashcoders mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Macromedia unveiling Flex
> > 2andFlash9 :communicationor cacophony ?
> >
> > Well, paraphrasing from the manual.
> >
> > "AMF requires flex enterprise services".
> >
> > I have read the docs for this section pretty thoroughly for
> > this section and it definitely says this.
> >
> > Now, obviously, the old AMF client side code can be ported to
> > AS3, but MM has no intent of making it easy or giving it
> > away. They make absolutely clear in the doc that AMF requires
> > flex enterprise services.
> >
> > Regards
> > Hank.
> >
> > On 10/19/05, Martin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > (except for the fact that they seem to be trying to kill
> > > > open source remoting... damn cant they just compete on features!)
> > >
> > > Hank, i really dont think this is true.
> > >
> > > if you check the new docs you'll see that AMF is still in the new
> > > player, BUT there is a new version of AMF (AMF3) which contains
> > > improvements to the protocol.
> > >
> > > and like the old and new VM, the two AMF protocols can
> > exist happily
> > > side by side in the the new player.
> > >
> > > thats how it seems to me anyway.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > martin
> > >
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