Main benifit is speed. When you pass data in XML to and from flash in the manner you are you effectivly passing a long string. The FLash player then has to parse that into an XML object. Now for smaller XML strings this is very quick, but lets say you have an XML object with several hundred - even thousands of nodes.
Not only will this take a while to transfer, but Flash will also chug on parseing it. Thats where remoting comes in. Reoting allows ue to flash data in purse binary form, and as native Flash objects. So if you have a script on your server that extracts some records from SQL into XML, you can pass that XML to Flash as a native XML object - NOT a string. The result is when this is transfered to flash - the player has to do nothing. It's already a native flash XML object - theres no need to parse it. It's obviously not restricted to XML - you can pass recordsets, customer objects, any type of data you like, and flash will send and recieve actual objects not string representations of. In a large scale application with major traffic (think backsing apps) this not only offers an added level of security, but also will save serious $$$ on bandwidth costs. Pete on 9/11/05 11:05 PM, Flashcoders mailing list <[email protected]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Navneet, >> >> There is to my knowledge NO current port of Remoting to traditional ASP, nor I >> supect will there ever be one. THere just wouldn't be the demmand. >> >> The MM implementation works perfectly, but is pricy. >> >> There are alternatives. >> >> http://www.themidnightcoders.com/ >> >> there is another which is currently in BETA (I have the link at the office so >> will send off list tomorrow) >> >> What is the scope to ramp up to .NET on this project ? >> >> If not the you might be able to go down the webservice root which would be a >> good compramise >> >> Pete >> >> on 9/11/05 9:29 PM, Flashcoders mailing list > <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>The fun has just been taken out of my development process when after >>>finishing RIA with AMFPHP the client top management have suddenly woken up >>>and realized that they don't want to have the application with PHP but with >>>ASP as the backend language. As sick as that makes me :( I have to now work >>>with their dev team to port my code in PHP to ASP. I'm being given the whole >>>lecture on their best practices. >>> >>>I don't know much about ASP and the client's dev team knows nothing about >>>Flash Remoting so there's a communication gap which will soon arise if I >>>don't prepare properly for this. >>> >>>So the questions: >>> >>>1. I know that Remoting works with ASP .NET but what about just ASP? >>>2. Is there something cool like AMFPHP which works with ASP? >>>3. Where should I read up for more resources on this? >>> >>>... and any other piece of advice some of you who've worked with ASP and >>>Remoting might have. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Navneet >>> > > Can someone explain the difference or benefits between using Flash > Remoting versus the XML object to retreive data? > > I haven't used Flash remoting yet mostly because of it's price tag. The > XML object has been working just fine for me. I use an XML object to > load in ASP pages that make SQL queries and return XML formatted strings. > > Is it that remoting is better or do each have there own place? > > JOR > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
