Adobe already has server-side JavaScript, which they actually call "Server-side ActionScript", probably for marketing reasons (why would you want to call JavaScript ActionScript?): http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/ssaslr/WS506b356fe242b04e73085b151300e983f4e-8000.html "Server-Side ActionScript is Adobe’s name for JavaScript 1.5. Flash Media Server has an embedded Java-Script engine that compiles and executes server-side scripts. This Server-Side ActionScript Language Reference documents the Flash Media Server host environment classes and functions. You can also use core Java-Script classes, functions, statements, and operators. For more information, see the Mozilla JavaScript documentation at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript.
Server-Side ActionScript is similar, but not identical, to ActionScript 1.0. Both languages are based on ECMAScript (ECMA-262) edition 3 language specification. Server-Side ActionScript runs in the Mozilla SpiderMonkey engine embedded in Flash Media Server. ActionScript 1.0 runs in AVM1 (ActionScript Virtual Machine 1) in Adobe® Flash® Player. SpiderMonkey implemented the ECMAScript specification exactly and Flash Player AVM1 did not. The biggest difference between Server-Side ActionScript and ActionScript 1.0 is that Server-Side ActionScript is case-sensitive." We should probably be careful to call real ActionScript 3.0 on the server "server-side ActionScript" then. I wonder what motivated Adobe to not use Tamarin/ActionScript within the Flash Media Server, but JavaScript instead, does anyone know?
