Is flash remoting becoming obsolete with web services?

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punkouter - 24 Aug 2005 18:22 GMT

I was looking to buy a book on flash remoting for talking to my asp.net web app
and then thought about web services and realized. Why bother using remoting?
Why not just call web services with flash? And I can just code my asp.net so
that all my functions that send data will be web services.

I also heard somewhere about there will be no more updates with flash remoting
?

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maliko50 - 24 Aug 2005 22:42 GMT

Web services are certainly a viable option but I strongly disagree that
remoting is becoming obsolete. There are thriving open source versions (like
amfphp) that are free. Remoting does have inherent benefits since it is closely
intergrated with flash. Flash Remoting uses a binary protocol, amf, which is
smaller and more compact than web services' xml. Consequently, Remoting is much
stronger when handling large amounts of data. Plus one doesn't need to worry
about data serialization with remoting. Remoting automatically maps client-side
actionscript objects to server-side objects, whether you use Java or .net,
leading to shorter development time.

Also, Macromedia recently released an update to Flash Remoting components for
use with Actionscript 2.0 so actually the product is still alive!

The decision is yours, just think of remoting as another tool to get the job
done. Every technology has its pros and cons.

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Jens Hauser - 25 Aug 2005 08:42 GMT

I hope they won´t drop support for remoting. And i don´t think so because
they are promoting Zorn and flex more and more. The fastest method of
passing data between flex and backend will be with remoting. And flex is
sort of a variation of flash som they will keep if for sure.

Jens

> Web services are certainly a viable option but I strongly disagree that
> remoting is becoming obsolete. There are thriving open source versions
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> job
> done. Every technology has its pros and cons.

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jktieman - 26 Aug 2005 05:29 GMT

>>>You said - Also, Macromedia recently released an update to Flash Remoting

components for use with Actionscript 2.0 so actually the product is still alive!

I use remoting and couldn't live without, but, I don't call June 2004,
recently. Interestly enough, I asked about new or updated AS2 classes just a
few days ago, with no response. What are we supposed to think about the future
of remoting when there is so little on the subject.

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maliko50 - 26 Aug 2005 14:58 GMT

I use remoting and couldn't live without, but, I don't call June 2004, recently.

That is true. But then again, when was the last time actionscript was updated?
Remoting Components is only updated when there is an update to actionscript
which was a year ago (v2.0).

Macromedia has been promoting rich internet apps with Flex so they're
definetly not jumping ship. I expect them to keep remoting around as a lower
cost alternative to flex ($12,000) for developers who dont need an IDE. BTW-
Remoting is included with Flex. I don't even use Macromedia's version of
remoting...as long as they update the remoting components when actionscript is
updated, I'll be happy.

If you need info on AS2 classes, there are many books on the subject, plus
this site has a AS2 dictionary somewhere...

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