The Apache/IIS module is a Flex compiler that compiles the MXML just 
before serving.  Similar to JSP, ASP, PHP..... and so on.  It is not 
MXML at runtime.


nathanpdaniel wrote:
> http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Module_for_Apache_and_IIS
>
> Not implying I know anything by any means - but from reading what you 
> wrote - it sounds the same... but I really don't know :D
>
> --- In [email protected], Austin Kottke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is an intriguing article in the flex cookbook on the adobe 
>>     
> site about
>   
>> reading in MXML at runtime and using the XML object to create 
>>     
> components 
>   
>> at runtime. While
>> I don't totally get how this works as there are no code samples, 
>>     
> but 
>   
>> very vague actually, but it states:
>>
>> "Let's consider, for a moment, how Adobe might have chosen to 
>>     
> leverage 
>   
>> reuse within the Flex2 programming model.
>>
>> "Assuming the Adobe engineers did not want to have to recreate the 
>>     
> wheel 
>   
>> in terms of how to make Flex2 able to load normal non-GUI XML I 
>>     
> would 
>   
>> surmise they chose to simply reuse whatever code they wrote that 
>>     
> was 
>   
>> able to read MXML into a way to read XML.
>>
>> "As we know, MXML resembles XML rather closely. Heck, MXML is XML ! 
>> Yipee, now I can easily read MXML because it is essentially a form 
>>     
> of XML.
>   
>> "We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime because the 
>> compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects.
>>
>> "But what if we could trick Flex2 into dynamically loading MXML at 
>> runtime ?"
>>
>>
>> So my question, has anyone ever done this and how did they do it? 
>>     
> I'm 
>   
>> not talking about using the
>> modules package to load in precompiled swfs. But loading in mxml 
>>     
> and 
>   
>> having it run after being loaded.
>>
>> Best, Austin
>>
>>     
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