Re: [Flashcoders] Whats the best way to communicate with the serverside?

2007-06-05 Thread Muzak
.adobe.com/devnet/flashremoting/ http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashremoting/java_jsp.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/java/ regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: "Cary Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:12 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Whats the be

Re: [Flashcoders] Whats the best way to communicate with the serverside?

2007-06-05 Thread Cary Ho
Wow, thanks for all the info. Ill look into all those different things. On the side, I was looking at the ExternalInterface and was wondering, If I have the container call a flash object, what sort of limitations are there in passing parameters to the flash app? The documentation seems a little

Re: [Flashcoders] Whats the best way to communicate with the serverside?

2007-06-05 Thread Glen Pike
Hi, Have a google for "Flash Remoting" - there are a number of Open Source server side systems to allow the Flash Remoting interface to pass data: OpenAMF is a Java one, I have done a bit with AMF PHP. It uses a binary format so your data is less bloated and with AMFPHP you can pass

Re: [Flashcoders] Whats the best way to communicate with the serverside?

2007-06-05 Thread Andy Herrman
It really depends on what kind of data you need to pass around. One other option is to have the server be able to receive XML data and respond with other XML data. Flash can generate and parse XML fairly easily. We do something similar to this in our application, where Flash generates an XML do

[Flashcoders] Whats the best way to communicate with the serverside?

2007-06-05 Thread Cary Ho
I had had this question under another topic, but I thought maybe it needed its own appropriate title. Im looking for a free solutions (aside from Flash CS3 itself) what can help me communicate with the server. Im making a client/server type program with my flash as the client. Currently we use