I'll check out the AMF option for those scenarios that are Flex client to Ruby/Sinatra which are probably the majority but as I mentioned I do have C programs that need to be hooked up as well, thanks
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote: > On 3/8/2013 2:08 PM, Charles Monteiro wrote: > >> Hi, I suspect that this may be inappropriate but it sure seems like it >> would be applicable to my continued development in Apache Flex i.e. I want >> a compressed way to talk to my backend. Currently, I do rely on json which >> is widely supported. MessagePack i.e. basically compressed json, has quite >> a number of implementations including Ruby which I need and there's even >> an >> implementation for GO, unfortunately AS is not in the list. >> >> thanks, any thoughts / comments appreciated. >> > > I'm not sure if you had a specific question. For Flex/Flash Platform > development I like to keep things AMF; which is a binary format for passing > data back and forth. In most implementations it comes with other nice > features such as automatically converting server side objects to client > side objects. As someone else mentioned; you can do this on Ruby using > RubyAMF. > > Beyond that, if you wanted to create an ActionScript implementation for > use of 'MessagePack' JSON and donate it to Apache Flex I'm sure that is > something we'd be willing to consider adding to the framework as a library. > Flash Player/AIR already support the use of JSON natively; but I do not > know anything about compressed JSON support. > > -- > Jeffry Houser > Technical Entrepreneur > 203-379-0773 > -- > http://www.flextras.com?c=104 > UI Flex Components: Tested! Supported! Ready! > -- > http://www.theflexshow.com > http://www.jeffryhouser.com > http://www.asktheflexpert.com > -- > Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust > > -- Charles A. Monteiro www.monteirosfusion.com sent from the road
