[Flash] Val and Flash MX

[Olaf Schmidtmann]

Hi Ruslan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruslan Zasukhin [mailto:sunshine at public.kherson.ua]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:55 PM
> To: valentina at lists.macserve.net
> Subject: Re: [Flash] Val and Flash MX
> 
> 
> on 1/22/03 4:57 PM, Marcus Bointon at marcus at synchromedia.co.uk wrote:
> 
> >> Hi Ruslan,
> >> 
> >> are you considering to let Flash get data from Val 
> directly? That would be
> >> extraordinary and a real killer feature for Valentina 
> because only Cold
> >> Fusion can do this (AFAIK). All other dbs (eve mySQL) have 
> to use a work
> >> around (eg. using PHP) or XML files.
> > 
> > Er, doesn't ColdFusion act as middleware just like PHP 
> does? Whether it
> > hides the HTTP communications layer in Flash is another 
> matter. Flash
> > doesn't have any plug-ins mechanism I'm aware of (like 
> shockwave does), so
> > you're kind of stuck with it as is. I don't think there's 
> anything Ruslan
> > can do, nor do I think there would be much to be gained.
> 
> Yes Olaf,
> 
> You miss something.
> 
> Flash can talk ONLY via XML. No own language.
> 
> It is other question where from you will get XML
>     from PHP
>     from Coldfusion
>     manually make it in C++

that is not completely right: you can use POST to send and get data (not
only xml).
But I think you and Marcus (btw: thanks for that last detailed reply) made
Valentina's role quite clear. So I have to wait for a 'SOAP' implementation
or a close Vale-webserver-integration...
I just hoped there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. I have to do
quite a lot with XML files and Flash and when you are dealing with huge
amounts of data it is getting slow and unhandy. Using a middleware like
shockwave to control Valentina in offline projects is often not an option
because one good thing bout Flash is its simple deployment and tinyness.
Enough lamentations! :-)

Thanks for your shares in this.

cu
Olaf
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