On 7/5/06, ryanm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a very simple need, and I'm trying to find the simplest way to satisfy it. I have essentially a single remote shared object on a comm server that is getting entirely too much traffic and I want to offload it to some other kind of server (that doesn't have connection limits). It is basically a "client state" object that keeps a very small amount of data about each client that is connected to the app (mainly their connection object and an id) so that data can be pushed to them. But it's expensive doing this on Comm Server.I basically just want to offload that one piece to some remoting server that is fast and has no connection limits. It needs to run on Windows, it would be nice if it could connect to my database servers, and it needs to be lightweight and fast. I don't mind paying for it (the FDS2 price tag isn't a problem), as long as it has good support. The servers I'm looking at now are FDS2 and Oregano. I get resistance to the OSS direction, but can work around it if the product is solid. My main concern about FDS is that it's way overkill for what I need to do. What server should I be looking at for this? ryanm
You say remoting, but then you mention Flashcom server. Which do you need exactly? They are quite different. One maintains a persistant connection (using RTMP, or XMLSocket for the non-adobe ones), the other is simply making HTTP request calls, to a server-side service. If you need a persistant realtime connection, I can recommend moock's Unity server. While it hasn't recieved any updates in quite some time, it is pretty solid, and the unlimited connection version is quite cheap (compared to flashcom for e.g.). It requires you to write serverside code in Java, however you can make calls out to other languages if you wish. Other servers I know of, but have not tested, are ElectroServer and Oregeno. If you need remoting type calls, which solution you use greatly depends on what language you are writing your server code in. If you are using php, then you would use AMFPHP. If you are using one of the languages supported by official flash remoting, you could use that. I think there are various free packages that support flash remoting on Java, .NET, etc. -David R _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
