Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide

Companion site for this book, with online examples and downloads (the Code Depot)

http://www.flash-remoting.com

B.1.1 Macromedia Resources

Link to the Macromedia site where the Flash Remoting components are available

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashremoting/downloads/

Macromedia online forum for Flash Remoting using JRun

http://webforums.macromedia.com/jrun/categories.cfm?catid=252

Macromedia's developer center for Flash Remoting

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flashremoting

Flash Remoting home page

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashremoting

Newsgroup that corresponds to the Flash Remoting forum at Macromedia

news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.flash.flash_remoting

Online support forums at the Macromedia site for Flash Remoting

http://webforums.macromedia.com/flash/categories.cfm?catid=250

Updater for Flash Remoting components, and Remoting gateway for ASP.NET and Java

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash_remoting/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_updater.html

Documentation about integrating Java in ColdFusion applications (when registering ActionScript classes on the server)

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/cfmxdocs/Developing_ColdFusion_MX_Applications_with_CFML/Java.jsp

Documentation for Flash Remoting

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/frdocs/Using_Flash_Remoting_MX/contents.htm

Article on using Server-Side ActionScript in JRun 4

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/flashremoting/using_serverside_actions

Macromedia Flash Exchange

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn110

Best practice white papers and articles

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/blueprint/articles/flashbp.html

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flashremoting/white_papers.html

B.1.2 Open Source Flash Remoting Projects

FLAP, an open source project adding Flash Remoting to Perl

http://www.simonf.com/flap

AMFPHP, an open source project for Flash Remoting using PHP-based servers

http://www.amfphp.org

OpenAMF , an open source project for Flash Remoting using Java

http://www.openamf.org

B.1.3 Articles, Blogs , and Utilities

Andrew Muller has posted some good Flash Remoting tutorials in the Tips and Tricks section

http://www.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=615224B1-D0B7-4CD6-F9ED2333AA0EB068

Blog from the Flash Community Manager, Mike Chambers

http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_mchambers

Connecting to the Amazon.com web service using ASP.NET

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/01/09/flash.html

Documentation for the < cflogin > tag

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/cfmxdocs/Developing_ColdFusion_MX_Applications_with_CFML/appSecurity.jsp

Good article on Flash Remoting for J2EE, including details on datatypes

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/02/26/flash_remoting.html

Interesting weblog that deals with Java issues in Flash Remoting

http://radio.weblogs.com/0113514/

The ASTranslator utility, which aids in transferring Java objects to ActionScript

http://carbonfive. sourceforge .net/astranslator