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February 02, 2006
Flex 2 Remoting
So wow, am I excited about what is going on over at Labs (http://labs.macromedia.com). The public Flex 2 beta is awesome for so many reasons -- one of which being the fact that I can continue to blog about all of the cool Flex 2 stuff we learn here in public.
As many people have noted Flex 2 has an upgraded RemoteObject (hereafter called RO) service which includes an upgrade of the AMF protocol to AMF3 -- previous versions of Flex RO use AMF0 which was originally available in Flash Remoting. This AMF upgrade is a good thing in that the latest AMF protocol has improvements in it that make possible Flex Enterprise Services features like data paging, lazy loading of data, and data synchronization between Flex client and server (including the ever so hard to solve conflict management problem we've seen in complex Flex 1.5 applications) among other things.
This same update to remoting is available for Cold Fusion (in beta form) with the CF/Flex connectivity components available here CF/Flex Connectivity. The CF/Flex connectivity beta components includes the CF Flash Remoting update (updating the gateway to AMF3) and a Cold Fusion Event Gateway that allows CF to leverage the Flex Enterprise Services messaging feature to deliver real-time data push, pub/sub messaging and collaboration.
Happy Remoting!
Posted by eanderson at February 2, 2006 11:19 AM