Programming Flash Communication Server

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Preface

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Part III: Remote Connectivity and Communication

Chapters 8 through 12 cover communication between FlashCom applications and

their clients or communicating with other application servers using Flash Remoting.

Chapter 8, Shared Objects

Offers extensive details on communicating between clients and applications

using temporary and persistent remote shared objects

Chapter 9, Remote Methods

Describes how to use the NetConnection and Client classes to implement remote

method invocation

Chapter 10, Server Management API

Covers the powerful API available to monitor and control FlashCom Server

operations

Chapter 11, Flash Remoting

Explains how to communicate with other applications, such as ColdFusion, to

implement features not available to FlashCom directly

Chapter 12, ColdFusion MX and FlashCom

Builds on the previous chapter and gives practical examples of ColdFusion and

FlashCom integration

Part IV: Design and Deployment

Chapters 13 through 18 cover building and extending components, application

design, scalability, managing latency and bandwidth limitations, and creating secure

applications.

Chapter 13, Building Communication Components

Introduces communication component development using the Flash UI compo-

nents and client-side ActionScript 2.0

Chapter 14, Understanding the Macromedia Component Framework

Describes how to write components that work with Macromedia’s communica-

tion component framework

Chapter 15, Application Design Patterns and Best Practices

Offers advice on application design, improving component performance, and

best practices

Chapter 16, Building Scalable Applications

Looks at multi-instance applications and how components can support scalable

designs

Chapter 17, Network Performance, Latency, Concurrency

Covers performance tuning to deal with latency and bandwidth limitations, plus

addresses concurrency issues and solutions in a networked environment