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Application server connectivity overview

This chapter explains how to use Macromedia Flash Remoting services to add application server connectivity to your Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX 1.5 application. Macromedia Flash Remoting is a gateway that connects your communication application to J2EE application servers and Microsoft Windows .NET servers. Flash Remoting relies on its own client-side ActionScript library, called NetServices, to link Macromedia Flash MX movies to a server-side gateway. The Flash Remoting script files are located (by default) in the scriptlib directory; for more information on the scriptlib directory, see File types used by Flash Communication Server. The NetServices API is described in Using Flash Remoting, available as a PDF on the Macromedia Flash Support Center website.

The samples in this chapter illustrate how you can make Flash Remoting calls in your Server-Side Communication ActionScript to access NetServices. In the context, the Flash Communication Server acts as a client to Flash Remoting. These samples work with Macromedia ColdFusion MX, which includes Flash Remoting. To use Flash Remoting with other application servers, see the Flash Remoting site.