Flex Remoting or Flash Remoting

Question

Hi,

Can you suggest which Remoting service is good either flash or flex.

Thank you

Answer 1

If you need data services, you may consider: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices3/ or

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS/

Otherwise, you may consider AMF protocol. I cannot say it is the best, but I like this one.

For AMF, it will depends on which technology that you are using.

For php, if you need a framework to work with, you may consider http://framework.zend.com/download/amf, otherwise, a more simple solution is: http://www.amfphp.org/.

For python, you can try: http://pyamf.org/

In addition, you may have a look of The Midnight Coders' web sites: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/

Wish this can help you.

Answer 2

I'm assuming you are asking about the server technologies, since both Flex and Flash use the same client side remoting.

In regards to the server you have a lot of choices, but I'm a big fan of the Adobe's open source BlazeDS, which is Java based. Definately check that out, unless you really like to manually serialize your objects. There is another Java based AMF server called Granite Data Services, but I have no experience with that.

If Java on the server isn't your cup of tea, I know there an AMF implementation in Ruby as well as Python (RubyAMF, PyAMF). I'm sure the .NET guys have one as well.

And if you are curious about other ways to push server data across the wire (RESTful XML or traditional Web Services), take a look at James Ward's benchmarking site here.

Good luck.