Thanks John,
I will add this information to my growing arsenal
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM, John Mason <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yep, so AMF is the serialization protocol so you'll find it in several
> messaging patterns get/post, remoting objects, messaging and streaming. As a
> flex developer, you will usually always want to use AMF for performance
> (bare in mind it does nothing for security). James Ward has a benchmark app
> to better explain the performance of the various protocols such as SOAP,
> AMF, JSON, etc. It's at http://www.jamesward.com/census/
>
> So normally you can hook your browser to Charles so you can read the AMF
> packets from a flash or flex app. The problem with AIR is that it's a
> standalone app which isn't contain inside of a browser. On windows you
> simply hook Charles to the network monitoring service, and Linux will be
> something similar.
>
> John
> [email protected]
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> [email protected] wrote:
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>> OK, I see. Charles lets you parse the AMF packets details. AMF still does
>> Get/Post from what I understand. But data is in a bandwidth saving binary
>> protocol.
>>
>> However explain the following quote
>>
>>
>> * In my situation, I'm using Charles with normal flex development, but *
>> with this AIR project I have to figure out how to hook it up to the OS *
>> level network system.
>>
>> I've never done AIR before but I assume it is the difference between
>> developing Java apps versus Java applets. However what I dont understand
>> what do you mean by the 'OS level network system' and how is that different
>> from using Flex's equivalent.
>>
>> In Flex I have a Flex/Rails project that originally used Soap. Now we use
>> AMF and when talking to legacy (pre web) server apps we use Binary Sockets.
>>
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