What is the difference between ExternalInterface and Flash Remoting?`

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Arran - 17 Aug 2007 12:27 GMT

Hi

Does any one know what the difference is between EnternalInterface and
Flash Remoting.

Our new project pulls xml files from sql2005 /asp.net 2.0 environment.
Then we need to send the info back to the SQL server (good old web-
services :->)

Which is the best option for us to use and why?

Cheers for any good pointers

Arran

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Tony - 23 Aug 2007 03:14 GMT

FlashRemoting would probably be your best bet. Look up Fluorine Gateway.
It's a free remoting gateway that you can install/include with ASP.NET 2.0 .
Remoting is a bit quicker (a contested issue by some) as it serializes the
data into AMF to send, and the opposite on the other end.

The ExternalInterface Class is used (and any, please jump in if I am wrong)
to manage communication between your swf and javascript. back in the day you
would use the Flash Javascript Integration Kit, which while effective, was
kind of a pain in the butt.

But for what you want to do, depending on the scale, Remoting. You could
also simply create a web service that would return the XML and use it that
way, but again, this is dependent on the scale.

Cheers,

Tony
http://www.binaryecho.com

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Arran - 28 Aug 2007 14:44 GMT

> FlashRemoting would probably be your best bet. Look upFluorineGateway.
> It's a free remoting gateway that you can install/include withASP.NET2.0 .
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Hi

Many thanks for the reply, We have started looking at fluorine, thanks
for the head's up. Now they want to use AS3 (no friendly webservice
classes as I can see) instead of AS2.

Anyway. Many thanks :->

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