>>I do have another question. I need my flash application to >>communicate to the servers. Its an applications that updates >>data server side. How is the accomplished in flash?
Many many different ways - what server side scripting is available to you? C#? PHP? JSP? ASP? ColdFusion? Java? VBScript? What database is available to you? You'll need to use server-side scripting to connect to the database. Once you have the database and server-side scripting set up, you can use the Flash Webservices classes, Flash Remoting, LoadVars, or getURL()/Get/Post, etc. - several ways in Flash - to connect to the server-side scripts. I've tried several of those methods in Flash and personally found Webservices (WSDL) with C# .NET the easiest and most flexible way to communicate with server-side scripting. It's not the smallest packet transfer since it's SOAP (XML format), but it's very flexible and easy and allows for complex data types to be transferred. The Webservice classes will get you started, just google webservices and Flash. Then you need to set up a WSDL Webservice in your server-side script. Remoting is also a good way, but I found it overly complex and somewhat buggy at times (at least combined with ColdFusion). Jason Merrill Bank of America GT&O Learning & Leadership Development eTools & Multimedia Team _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com 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
