Hi all,

Of course it can be done with Flex after I saw the internet meeting room
application which is developed by Adobe. And my target is similar with that.
One of the client is the host which acts like an info center, while all other
clients can read/write data with the host. As far as I know, there is a
LocalConnection object. But those clients are located in different areas, how
can the share LocalConnection? Or is there another way to achieve my target?
Any tips and ideas are very appreciated. And the more detail the better.

Thanks and regards,
Felix:confused;

"yancaoshi" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Of course it can be done with Flex after I saw the internet meeting room
> application which is developed by Adobe. And my target is similar with
> that.
> One of the client is the host which acts like an info center, while all
> other
> clients can read/write data with the host. As far as I know, there is a
> LocalConnection object. But those clients are located in different areas,
> how
> can the share LocalConnection? Or is there another way to achieve my
> target?
> Any tips and ideas are very appreciated. And the more detail the better.

Google LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS.

Hi,

Thanks for replying. I have read some documents of BlazeDS. Isn't it mainly
used as the mediator between Flex and Java? I don't want to store data to
server side or through database. If possible, I hope clients can talk directly
via peer2peer connection.
If you think BlazeDS can meet my requirement, would you please give me some
more keywords?

Thank you again!
yancaoshi

"yancaoshi" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Thanks for replying. I have read some documents of BlazeDS. Isn't it
> mainly
> used as the mediator between Flex and Java? I don't want to store data to
> server side or through database. If possible, I hope clients can talk
> directly
> via peer2peer connection.

I don't believe that you can do this without some sort of central data
repository.

> If you think BlazeDS can meet my requirement, would you please give me
> some
> more keywords?

Sorry, this isn't something I have much experience with.

Any suggestion?
I still haven't found any feasible and convenient implementation.

Thanks all!

Any suggestion?
I still haven't found any feasible and convenient implementation.

Thanks all!

You'll need a server. BlazeDS is open source free alternative to commercial and
more capable LiveCycle Data Services.

And BlazeDS is not *just* bridge between java and flex; it much more
especially with its near real time messaging. And that's what you're looking
for.

Read and run these demos:


http://coenraets.org/blog/2008/04/ya...lex-and-blazed
s/

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/art...aboration.html

and lastly, hit this URL in two separate browsers:

http://coenraets.org/samples/flexmaps/flexmaps.html

login ans start playing!

ATTA

"yancaoshi" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Any suggestion?
> I still haven't found any feasible and convenient implementation.

Suggest you adjust your requirement for "convenient" to "possible."

HTH;

Amy

Flex (even AIR) clients can't do that yet. You'll need a server to do this. I
really hate this too, and hope Adobe provides this functionality at some point.
AIR at least should be able to listen for incoming connections!

There is a way to do this, but it's NOT convenient at all. You'd have to use
a bridge like Merapi or Artemis to interact with your own implementation of a
Java server. The Java server would listen for the Flex clients and so on.
This should be possible but it's not trivial.

So harass Adobe to enhance AIR. ^_^

It seems that BlazeDS will be a good option and hope it won't involve too many
DB access before I read the documents.

Maybe somebody have experience on chatting application with Flex. Does it use
BlazeDS or any third party technology?

And how about LocalConnection? Is it a good solution if all the clients run in
a LAN?

I think this is a widely used topic and thanks for all repliers.