Re: Flash+Struts how?

[V. Cekvenich]

I wish I could add something more, other than repeat what has been said:

http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg12987.html

It seems that Flash/SOAP/Beans is mostly Model/View, however it is very marketable.

I like cybersage.com as well, and avoiding Remoting Server (license cost in case of MS). There is also an open source someplace.... looking for the link.

.V


Michael C. Clark wrote:

Being able to return XML to the UI is not all that bad, when you
consider the opportunities for integrating other technolgies for
presentation (if you like XSLT and the like).

There are also some nice tools that take advantage of the modular
nature of FlashMX, and the native XML parsing capabilities of Flash,
available from Flash5 forward.

For UI components check out www.cybersage.com and Flash developer CD
($99 additional) ... XML opens the door to a *slick* rich client UI.

"I love Struts and I vote"

In the right hands, Flash aint all that bad (but then I don't use
emacs to code JavaBean accessors, so...).

-M

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Subject: Re: Flash+Struts how?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:09:22 -0500

Mark Galbreath wrote:

Only a weenie programmer would use Flash with Struts[...]

Nice attitude. I hope I misunderstood that reply...

Anyway, to answer the original inquiry:
A part of the UI of our app is a flash movie, and we chose to
integrate it using XML. The Flash sends requests to our struts actions (they
look like any other URL to Flash), but these particular actions return XML

instead of HTML. The Flash parses the XML and applies it to the UI appropriately. Works quite well and with no noticeable CPU usage on
the client - a problem we had with the previous, complicated HTML
interface for this part of the app.
There is also a relatively new feature of Flash MX that provides integration between Flash and J2EE apps without using XML in between.

Although I haven't looked at it in detail, I bet it can be used with Struts as well as "ordinary" servlets. See <http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2003/jw-0117-flash_p.html>

HTH,
Eric
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Eric Rizzo
Software Architect
Jibe, Inc.
http://www.jibeinc.com

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