[flexcoders] Issues using standalone Flash Remoting with Flex 1.5

[Alon J Salant]

Hey all,   I’m wondering what experience the group has with using Flex 1.5 with servers running Flash Remoting but not Flex. I’d like to distribute my application processing across a number of servers running Flash Remoting and have fewer Flex servers. I have experimented with a couple options:   OpenAMF Using OpenAMF with Flex requires abandoning the <RemoteObject> tag and using the ActionScript Remoting libraries. This is because the Flex client sends AMF messages in a different structure (they are wrapped in an envelope that contains metadata) than Flash Remoting v1 or the standalone Remoting client libraries. With this resolved with a couple hacks to OpenAMF, I still found that the AMF responses from OpenAMF differed enough from the Flash Remoting implementation provided by Flex that I could not use it as a drop-in replacement. For simple messages, OpenAMF worked fine but for complex messages with cyclical references, the behavior was different. Some work there for the OpenAMF team but for now I need to put aside this option. Flash Remoting v1.1 This is what I will call the version of Flash Remoting bundled with Flex 1.5. I believe that there has not been a standalone release of this version. However, there is documentation on using this version on the Macromedia site: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=46f3d4ac. This document implies that you can use the flashgateway.jar file provided with Flex and use it with an existing Flash Remoting serial number. I have successfully configured Flash Remoting using this jar and a gateway-config.xml file in a webapp without Flex running. However, Flash Remoting runs in developer mode. This is true even when I configure the gateway with a valid serial number as documented in the above technote. That kinda sucks. Has anyone run in to this?   Alon -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.