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Supported Platforms

The Flash Remoting gateway is also sold separately for other application servers,

including J2EE servers and Microsoft .NET, and must be installed and configured

before it can be used. The trial version of the Flash Remoting gateway for J2EE and

ASP.NET can also be downloaded from the Macromedia web site cited earlier.

There are several open source implementations of the Flash Remoting gateway, apart

from the versions supported by Macromedia.

The AMFPHP project, discussed in Chapter 9, implements Flash Remoting for PHP

application servers:

http://www.amfphp.org

The FLAP project implements Flash Remoting for Perl:

http://www.simonf.com/flap

The OpenAMF project is an open source alternative to Macromedia’s Flash Remot-

ing gateway for Java:

http://www.openamf.org

Supported Platforms

This section is a quick summary of Flash Remoting capabilities and server-side ser-

vices that can be exposed to Flash from supported application servers. For the latest

list of supported application servers, platforms, and configurations, see:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/flashremoting

Macromedia ColdFusion MX

The Flash Remoting gateway comes preinstalled with Macromedia ColdFusion MX

and allows developers to deploy remote services as:

• ColdFusion pages

• ColdFusion Components

• Server-Side ActionScript (SSAS)

• SOAP-based web services

Flash Remoting is also included in the Macromedia ColdFusion MX for J2EE ver-

sion for deployment on Java application servers, such as WebSphere and BEA

WebLogic. It includes support for the remote services supported in ColdFusion MX

in addition to those supported on a Java server that ColdFusion is installed on, as

discussed below. For more information on ColdFusion MX, or to download a fully

functional trial version, go to:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/

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