Ted’s AMF Secret

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When Ted blogs something like “There is some big AMF news coming in December” my email and IM always gets a bit more traffic. I’m not going to spoil the secret, but you should be excited. I have the full briefing about it tomorrow but it’s been a project a while in the making so I’ve been able to follow it and get info in bits and pieces. I usually try not to do “this is going to be cool” posts, but I got a lot of questions about it so I wanted to post something publicly. It will be worth the wait, I promise.

[tags]AMF, Flex[/tags]

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  • http://mrmx.blogspot.com Mike Rankin

    Ahhh. Tell us. I hope you find a hermit crab in your toothpaste.

  • http://en.flash-ripper.com/ Rostislav Siryk

    Saturdays is full of gifts in the Ryan Stewarts’s blog!

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    I think you cursed me Mike. I dropped my toothbrush in the toilet (don’t ask). I blame you :)

  • http://mrmx.blogspot.com Mike Rankin

    ooh. Sorry about that. I didn’t realize I had the voodoo on, mon.

  • http://en.flash-ripper.com/ Rostislav Siryk

    You both turned the “Mana mode” a bit too much on, gents :-)

    Ryan, can I daydream a little about the upcoming AMF treasures?

    1. AMF 4.0 will be able to serialize/deserialize Display Objects as well as it can do so on regular data types. It can become very useful feature: imagine you made a cool flash mapping application. Each time user leaves the map, application saves its visual state in the Local Shared Object as set of AMF’ed Sprites; next time user launches the map, it restores its look directly from Local Flash Cookies, just in moment.

    2. Adobe will release the Official Flash Remoting for Flash CS3. Now we can use it by engaging NetConnection class but it needs a bit of hacking, and there’s no docs for regular flash developer, who just wants to use Flash Remoting with Fluorine for .NET or AMFPHP.

    3. The new AMF class (ByteArray extension), which provides the extra methods for getting additional info about AMF-ed data: its structure, objects data types etc.

    Hmm… my imagination is too poor, I can’t produce more AMF news at the moment. I know, real AMF update will overcome my modest thoughts ;-)

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