There are 3 types of loading for ApplicationDomain depending on the need of interaction and use. This page explains it better. https://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WSd75bf4610ec9e22f43855da312214da1d8f-8000.html
Our use case is reverse of yours. The child swf's are located on site and we do not have control over their age (some customers will not allow updates after testing is complete), but the boot loader we can control to make sure its up to date. So when a technician goes to a site and connects we want to be able load older or newer versions from the same boot loader. We are doing usage C because I want the loaded swf to communicate with some classes from our boot loader, I do have to watch backward compatibility in the boot loader but for us its an ok trade off because the main goal is to load older and newer swf's from a single boot loader. Sounds like you would want usage A. -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/