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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. Macromedia has provided the initial set of the server-side technologies with Flash Remoting, but has not updated them since the initial release. The technology is still intrusive, noncohesive, and ... (more)

Flash Remoting vs Flash Player with SOAP

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 WebServiceCon... (more)