Joe Orbman

With the recent release of Flash MX 2004 Professional Edition and the SOAP support built into Flash Player some are questioning whether Flash Remoting has become obsolete. Indeed, it appears that Macromedia did not do anything to enhance the Flash Remoting feature, but instead made a significant stride to beef up support for SOAP Web services. The noticeable presence of the WebServiceConnector component, as well as the API for programmatically invoking Web services, makes a lot of developers wonder whether Flash Remoting is overshadowed by SOAP now. Anyone familiar with both approaches will admit that the core difference between them would be performance, though products such as FlashORB add a variety of features that significantly enhance the Flash Remoting approach. This article analyzes the results of a set of benchmark tests designed to demonstrate the performan... (more)

A New Solution for Flash Remoting

If you do Flash Remoting in .NET - read on. We at MXDJ began to hear about FlashORB and went straight to the source for an inside view of this alternative to Macromedia's Flash Remoting. Everyone is talking about rich Internet applications. Some are experimenting; others are building real applications. Flash MX downloads are exceeding all expectations, and there is a general consensus that the Internet has evolved enough to take the user experience to the next level. With all the advancements on the client side, however, there has not been enough innovation on the server side. M... (more)