Hi Henri,
I'm taking a serious look at Rich Internet Applications, and I'm investigating using FlashMX as client.
Did some of you have some experiences on this ?
Yep, I've developed two server apps for Flash clients using XMLRPC (http://www.proboscis.org.uk/urbantapestries/index.html is one project), both projects made use of a framework which I wrote (at autonomous software) which included code generation for object/rdb data access classes and XMLRPC handlers.
From my POV (delivering the server) it was extremely sucessful, howeveroverall Flash's complete inability to handle XML efficiently meant that when we compared our average calls' timing on a java client (built purely for the comparison) and the Flash client there was up to a 10 fold increase in time taken for a call on flash over java. In fact at some points Flash appeared to hang and eventually came up with a dialogue proclaiming something like "flash is taking a very long time, do you want to abandon this or continue?"
Introducing timings into the mix revealed that it was Flash parsing the xml response which was killing performance. The problem increased exponentially with the size of the response. My conclusion is that you have to either keep the response xml small and make many short requests, or abandon xml or Flash in favour of something more efficient. The XML RPC guys have been talking about using gz compression on the XML, which would have helped us with bandwidth, our clients were on limited bandwidth mobile devices, perhaps this would also tip the balance in favour of making many small requests, but it wouldn't address the woefully slow and hungry XML parsing of flash.
Perhaps soneone at xml.Apache would liek to write an actionscript xml parser .....
XML parsing is reported very slow in Flash MX (Flash 6 at least).
Do you try astranslator http://carbonfive.sourceforge.net/astranslator ?
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