Summary
This chapter covered a lot of ground. Not only did you learn how
data can travel between Flex and Java using the AMF protocol, but you also
learned how to automate the coding of the objects that are being
transported by AMF. You got familiar with the internals of the pretty
powerful DataCollection
object, and
went through a set of code fragments that illustrate various techniques
applicable to creating a data synchronization solution based on Flex
remoting.
The authors of this book have created and made available a fully
functional version of such a DataCollection
object, and we’ve provided the
reference to its complete code on SourceForge. You’ll revisit DataCollection
in Chapter 9, where its subclass, OfflineDataCollection
, will do a good
job synchronizing data between the local and remote databases in an AIR
application. Finally, you’ve learned yet another advanced technique for
pushing the data from the server to the client, via the AMF protocol
implemented in BlazeDS and making reverse RPC calls.
And the most exciting part is that in this chapter we’ve been using only open source solutions!
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