Joe Rice wrote: > I'm new to Flash but have still been charged with researching the > possibility of using Flash as the front end of a struts web application > that has already been built with JSP's. Has anyone used Flash with > Struts, and if so, do you have any suggestions, tutorials etc... you > would recommend? > > Thanks. >
I do a lot of flash work so although I haven't used it with struts I think I have an idea of how this would be approached. Basically you are going to want to replace the JSP views with Flash views. This means you will lose the taglibs that are for specifically handling html forms because you are now using flash form elements which are slightly different. On the other hand, Flash gives you more programming control so you can do the validation in place. For those who don't do much Flash work, a Flash can load other flash movies so rather than continually loading new html pages that contain a new flash movie you would be loading in new sub-movies. I think you would want it to work something like this: Flash form -> Struts FormBean -> Action -> return new Flash sub movie with response So the only part that is new is the response is a new dynamically created flash movie loaded into the container flash movie instead of new jsp loaded into the browser. There is an open source project called jgenerator at www.flashgap.com. Though it has now been commercialized at www.jzox.com the original is under an apache style license. Usually used for online dynamic flash generation it can also act as API for a servlet to dynamically create flash movies. The end result would be instead of a form getting an html response you would use the Flash LoadMovie() command to load a swt (Flash Template) file. So you would have struts return the swt instead of a jsp. The swt then loads the servlet/jsp/whatever-creates-a-data-text-file to get the data it needs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
