Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything like an open source
implementation of AMF, which is what I assumed I would find given the
domain name. What am I supposed to find there?

-Matt

On Jan 13, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Brian LeRoux wrote:

> Give openamf.org a go. Solves all these issues you mention.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: January 13, 2004 10:56 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Flash Remoting with Blue Dragon
>
> > Depends on how you look at "portable". At the end of the day a Flash
> > app
> > can only access a server resource if it resides on the same server as
> > the published SWF file or if crossdomain.xml allows it. If you have
> > access to the server it really only makes sense to take advantage of
> > the
> > Remoting performance boost. Remember Remoting works with SOAP but the
> > deserialization occurs on the server not the client so the issue of
> > SOAP
> > vs Remoting really isn't there.
> >
> It might make sense to use Flash Remoting, but you have to remember
> that Flash Remoting is a product that costs money, so even if you have
> access to the server, you will still need a license to Flash Remoting
> before you can use it. On the other hand, there are plenty of server
> products that have built-in support for SOAP meaning that adding Flash
> Remoting to the mix will actually cost more.
>
> > 3. I have found Flash Remoting and AMF to be more robust than the web
> > service implementations I have used.��I have forced myself to use web
> > services in newer projects rather than Flash Remoting just to get the
> > experience, and I have found bugs in both the Flash implementation
> and
> > in Apache Axis which caused a lot of frustration and would have been
> > avoided if I had used Flash Remoting.��So far, I have not run into
> any
> > significant bugs with Flash Remoting that I can recall.
> >
> > Very true.
> >
> Maybe true for some, but there are plenty of Flash Remoting issues that
> still haven't been addressed. For example, you still can't consume
> services from Java classes and CFCs in the same context as both rely on
> different gateways that are not compatible. Further, there is serious
> marshaling challenges for Java-based services that Flash Remoting
> consumes not the least of which is corrupted objects.
>
> -Matt
> ��_____
>
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